membranaceous

English

Etymology

From Latin membrānāceus.

Adjective

membranaceous (comparative more membranaceous, superlative most membranaceous)

1. Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 75:

     "Nay he confirms what his Antagonist has wrote, partly by History, and partly by Reason; affirming that himself in his own Garden found two little birds with membranaceous wings utterly devoid of Legs, their form was near to that of a Bat's."

Synonyms

• (resembling a membrane): membranous

Related terms

• membrane
• membranous

Translations

resembling or having properties of a membrane

• Greek: μεμβρανώδης (el) m (memvranódis), μεμβρανοειδής m (memvranoeidís)
• Latin: membrānāceus