Thesaurus / membranous
FEEDBACK- aerial
- aery
- airy
- bleary
- blurred
- cloudy
- diaphanous
- dim
- ethereal
- gauzy
- gossamer
- gossamery
- hazy
- milky
- misty
- opalescent
- opaque
- pearly
- sheer
- transparent
- vaporous
antonyms for membranous
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How to use membranous in a sentence
I took in the situation almost at a glance—membranous croup!
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT, COMPLETEMARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS)I have never examined the throat of a child dead from so-called membranous croup in which I did not find the diphtheria bacillus.
ESSAYS IN PASTORAL MEDICINEAUSTIN MALLEYInflammatory, obstructive, and membranous dysmenorrhoea are commonly made worse by marriage.
ESSAYS IN PASTORAL MEDICINEAUSTIN MALLEYThe ears were without hair, thin and membranous like the wings of a bat, and very open.
BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY. VOLUME VII (OF 10)GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFONWhen conditions unfavorable for life come, the amœba, like some one-celled plants, encysts itself within a membranous wall.
A CIVIC BIOLOGYGEORGE WILLIAM HUNTERAs the leaves develop, these membranous wrappings curl back, and finally wither and fall.
A YEAR IN THE FIELDSJOHN BURROUGHSCharacterized by having four membranous wings with comparatively few veins, the hind part smallest.
DIRECTIONS FOR COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INSECTSC. V. RILEYAt the moment of this change the envelope is nearly as soft and membranous as in the order first mentioned.
AN INTRODUCTION TO ENTOMOLOGY: VOL. III (OF 4)WILLIAM KIRBYLateral and often membranous processes observable on each side of the tongue in some Hymenoptera, &c.
AN INTRODUCTION TO ENTOMOLOGY: VOL. III (OF 4)WILLIAM KIRBYThe upper organs of flight, when they are corneous or coriaceous at the base and membranous at the apex.
AN INTRODUCTION TO ENTOMOLOGY: VOL. III (OF 4)WILLIAM KIRBYWORDS RELATED TO MEMBRANOUS
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