Membranous vs Membranaceous - What's the difference?
membranous | membranaceous | Synonyms |
Having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a membrane.
Accompanying the formation of a membrane.
Thin, pliable, and often transparent.
Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 75:
*:"Nay he confirms what his Antagonist has wrote, partly by History, and partly by Reason; affirming that himself in his own Garden found two little birds with membranaceous wings utterly devoid of Legs, their form was near to that of a Bat's."
