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

Scientists suspect that the membranous webbing helps to deter would-be predators by making the octopus appear larger and more intimidating.

From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2022

“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