velum
Biology. any of various veillike or curtainlike membranous partitions.
Anatomy. the soft palate.: See under palate (def. 1).
Meteorology. a thin cloud, large in horizontal area, that is draped over or penetrated by cumuliform clouds.
Origin of velum
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How to use velum in a sentence
After a little while try to move the velum, closing and opening the nose passage, without uttering a sound and without breathing.
The Sounds of Spoken English | Walter RippmannStill watching your mouth, inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth; see how the velum moves as you do this.
The Sounds of Spoken English | Walter RippmannAlso called velar (from velum, for which see § 8) and more usually, but less accurately, guttural.
The Sounds of Spoken English | Walter RippmannBok also signifies acupictile, vel acupictum (velum, auloeum).
The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson | Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre SturlesonFoot divided into two, posterior half bearing the operculum; a wide epipodial velum; shell turbinated.
British Dictionary definitions for velum
/ (ˈviːləm) /
zoology any of various membranous structures, such as the ciliated oral membrane of certain mollusc larvae or the veil-like membrane running around the rim of a jellyfish
anatomy any of various veil-like bodily structures, esp the soft palate
botany another word for veil (def. 6)
Origin of velum
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