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velum::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | veil |
| Type of | plant structure, plant part |
| Has types | universal veil, partial veil |
velum::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | soft palate |
| Type of | flap |
| Derivation | velar |
Examples of velum
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A postnasalized stop begins with a raised velum that lowers during the occlusion.
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The Three Perfumes by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh is watercolor on velum.
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A prenasalized stop starts out with a lowered velum that raises during the occlusion.
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Labial-velar consonants are doubly articulated at the velum and the lips.
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In nasal vowels, the velum is lowered, and some air travels through the nasal cavity as well as the mouth.
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The palate is divided into two parts, the anterior bony hard palate, and the posterior fleshy soft palate or velum.
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In contrast, nasal vowels in French or Portuguese are transitional, where the velum ends up constricting the mouth airway.
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A nasal vowel is a vowel that is produced with a lowering of the velum so that air escapes both through nose as well as the mouth.
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The early stages, or larvae, usually live in the water column eating microscopic algae and swimming with a specialized structure called the velum.
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- Veil: a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
- Soft palate: a muscular flap that closes off the nasopharynx during swallowing or speaking
- The soft palate (or velum, or muscular palate) is the soft tissue constituting the back of the roof of the mouth. The soft palate is distinguished from the hard palate at the front of the mouth in that it does not contain bone.
- A thin membrane, resembling a veil, such as: A locomotory and feeding organ provided with cilia found in the larval stage of bivalves. A delicate membrane found on certain protists. A circular membrane round the cap of a sea jelly, or medusa. ...
- Ciliated organ used for locomotion and feeding in the veliger larval stage of oysters.
- Posterior part of a proglottis, overlapping subsequent proglottis
- (Latin) sail for a boat usually made from linen but also from cotton; generally large pieces of cloth were sewn together leaving a visible seam that can be seen in ancient artwork depicting ships.
- Inward projection of the margin of the bell of hydrozoan medusae
- A flap of tissue covering the sporangium in Isoetes
