adjective
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Relating to, made of, or similar to a membrane.
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Characterized by the formation of a membrane or a layer like a membrane.
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Origin of membranous
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The organelles consist of stacks of membranous sacs that process and package proteins so that they can be transported to other parts of the cell or excreted from the cell.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
It then must move to another membranous network in the cell called the endoplasmic reticulum.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023
The tiny baby octopuses—each about the size of a nickel—emerged from soft, membranous eggs, clutched in their mothers’ protective embrace.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 3, 2023
“Every membranous violet smear on the gritty toilet paper was proof to me that I existed. … All day I flitted from bodily need to bodily need.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2018
He was not large of his kind, maybe the length of a forty-oared ship, and was wormthin for all the reach of his black membranous wings.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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