membranedadj.
/ˈmɛmbreɪnd/, U.S. /ˈmɛmˌbreɪnd/ Having or consisting of a membrane. Also as final element in compounds.
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1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. M2v Membranatus caulis, a membraned stem.
1872 R. Browning Fifine Prol. iv The membraned wings So wonderful, so wide.
1955 R. Bradbury October Country 214 She stroked his large green membraned veils with careful envy.
1988 J. Frame Carpathians vi. 36 A fat dark-blue fly with palely membraned wings..buzzed at the windowpane.
2012 D. Rickard Sulfidic Sediments & Sedimentary Rocks xvi. vii. 671 Cavalier-Smith proposed that single-membraned organisms developed from double-membraned organisms through the loss of a membrane.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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