Brachypodium sylvaticum is distinguished by habitat, its broad leaves, membranous ligule, fibrous roots, &c.
At the junction of the blade with the sheath there is in most cases a delicate membranous upgrowth of the former, more or less appressed to the stem, and called the Ligule (Figs.
The membranous appendage which connected its long finger with its body was rather a parachute than a wing.
Among the animals of our epoch, only a single reptile is found provided with wings, or digital appendages analogous to the membranous wings of the bats, and which can be compared to the Pterodactyle.
The flowers are brown, either distinct or in clusters of two or three, arranged in a compound raceme, with a perianth of shining segments membranous at the margins, and about a sixth of an inch long.
It varies from one to four feet in height; and its alternate leaves are heart-shaped or arrow-shaped, pointed, with short membranous stipules at the base of the stalk.
The receptacle is flat, with membranous scales between the florets; and the fruits are crowned by from two to five stiff, prickly bristles.
The heads of flowers are about an inch in diameter, solitary on long, terminal stalks, surrounded by an oval involucre of closely-overlapping bracts with sharp points and toothed, membranous margins.
The five lobes of the calyx are fringed with a conspicuous, transparent, membranous border.
The involucre is brown, with a membranous edge; the ray white, and the disc yellow.
The flower-heads are terminal, with a white ray and yellow disc, surrounded by blunt bracts the inner of which have membranous tips.
The stem is stout and downy, and the pinnate leaves have membranous stipules and numerous oblong leaflets which terminate abruptly in a point.
They may be distinguished from other crucifers by their loose calyx; simple, rounded stigma on a very short style; and their oblong or narrow pods with the seeds arranged in two rows on each side of the membranous partition.
The order Polygonaceae also includes several wayside plants which may be easily distinguished as a group by the following characters:--At the bases of the alternate leaves are membranous stipules that form a sheath round the stem.
They are both strong-smelling plants with bulbous roots, radical leaves, and flowers arranged in an umbel with membranous spathes.
The hinder legs are very long, the next shorter; and the foremost pair of thighs are terminated with spines: the others have membranous lobes, which serve them as wings in their flight.
Their wings are membranous and veined, like those of the dragon flies and their allies, but instead of being naked they are covered by close-set scales of the most delicate texture and most brilliant colours.
Having four membranous and semi-transparent wings, veined like network; and the tail without a sting, as the dragon-fly and ephemera.
These animals have two membranous feet or arms, like wings, proceeding from the neck.
Having fourmembranous and semi-transparent wings, veined like network; and the tail armed with a sting, as the wasp and bee.
During the breeding season the males of both species, but especially those of the larger one, are adorned with membranous crests, and their colours become much more vivid.
IN this order the elytra, or wing-cases, are much softer and more flexible than in the beetles; they are frequently membranous or webbed, and when closed they do not form a straight line down the back.
The mouth in these creatures is in the middle of the lower surface, and it has a membranous lip, capable of great dilation, but furnished with angular projections for capturing its prey.
They are generally perennial herbs with a creeping underground stem and erect, unbranched, aerial stems, bearing slender leaves which are grass-like or cylindrical or reduced to membranous sheaths.
The membranous Parts of the Body in general more dry and rigid than in most other Diseases.
In the end these pits touch with their deepest and innermost points the two blind ends of the primitive alimentary canal, so that they are now only separated from them by thin membranous partitions.
The right and left halves of the head curve over the cerebral vesicle, enclose the foremost part of the chorda below, and thus finally form a simple, soft, membranous capsule about the brain.
The skull develops in the same way as the membranous vertebral column.
Inside of them is another pair, much smaller than the first, and tuned to their octave, I should guess, while two membranous smelling trumpets of similar pattern rise over the nose.
Its ears, thin, membranous and longer than its head, tremble incessantly.
This genus is remarkable for a membranous bag rising above the occiput, which can be filled with air at pleasure; also for an elevated crest along the back, that can be raised or depressed at will.
A smallmembranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.
This is a membranous canal and extends from the vulva to the uterus (womb) and connects the external and internal organs of generation.
Cases of catarrhal, membranous and diphtheric croup are benefited by the vapor of vinegar diffused through the sick room.
Diphtheria in the larynx may occur alone or with the pharyngeal kind, and was formerly called "Membranous Croup.
An examination in such cases may reveal a marked sore throat or a membranous deposit on the tonsils preceding the eruption, and nothing more.
To complete the description, the minute structures of the vital organs are enrolled in membranous matter.
See, then, what an all-important part these membranous structures play in the animal life.
If you take a portion of bone, you will find it easy to strip off from it a membranous sheath or covering; if you examine a joint, you will find both the head and the socket lined with membranes.
All the muscles are enveloped in membranes, and the fasciculi, or bundles and fibres of muscles, have their membranous sheathing.
Upon all these membranous structures alcohol exerts a direct perversion of action.
The effect of the alcohol upon the liver is upon the minute membranous or capsular structure of the organ, upon which, it acts to prevent the proper dialysis and free secretion.
Some of these are thus described: "The perverted condition of the membranous covering of the nerves gives rise to pressure within the sheath of the nerve, and to pain as a consequence.
In order to make perfectly clear to the reader's mind the action and use of these membranous expansions, and the way in which alcohol deteriorates them, and obstructs their work, we quote again from Dr.
Richardson: "The membranous structures which envelope and line the organ are changed in quality, are thickened, rendered cartilaginous and even calcareous or bony.
These have all to be arranged in the body; and they are arranged by means of the membranous envelopes.
To the touch these vesicles are firm and resisting, and the membranous covering is not easily broken, unless macerated by the perspiration due to heavy flannels.
It is during this stage that, owing to the softening of its membranous covering, the pustule is broken by the movements of the patient or the contact of rough bed-linen.
In this cavity sounds are repeated, and by that means conveyed to the membranous part of the lamina, which being an expansion of the auditory nerves transmits them to the mind.
FISH GLUE is made in like manner from variousmembranous and solid parts of fishes.
It is often sophisticated; a fraud readily detected by the "absence of the membranous partition in the interior of the bags, as well as by the altered smell and taste.
S S are suctorial discs; the hooklets may be seen encircling a membranous disk.
Other illustrations of a like character are to be met with in the membranous scales that represent leaves in Ruscus, Asparagus, Pinus, &c.
It will be borne in mind that the changes of consistence from membranous to succulent or woody are very frequent in the ordinary course of development.
The twigs, even in the dead of winter, yield this refreshing acid sap, that flows through the veins of the membranous leaves in summer.
The flowers appear with the leaves and would escape notice but for their abundance and the unusual color of their three large membranous petals.
In the production of tone, the muscular tissue of the vocal cords is thrown into vibration by the air blast, and not merely the membranous covering of the inner edges of the cords.
The situation and size of this bundle has been thus described in man by Retzer: "When viewed from the left side, the bundle lies just above the muscular septum of the ventricles and below the membranous septum.
If, in addition, the membranous septum be removed, the bundle may be traced from the point to which it could be followed when viewed from the left side as it passes posteriorly over the muscular septum.
When viewed from the right side of the heart, the bundle can not be seen, because it is covered by the mesial leaflet of the tricuspid valve, whose line of attachment passes obliquely over the membranous septum.
Then, if the endocardium is removed from the posterior part of the septum of the auricle up to the membranous septum, the posterior part of the auriculoventricular bundle will be exposed.
The finger-nails resemble thinmembranous plates, the skin shows more firmness, but is still rosy-hued, thin and transparent.
The latter is conspicuous from the reflexed condition of the limb of the perianth, and also from its lobes and membranous fringe being a soft lemon-yellow colour.
They are (in the flowers) to be seen at a glance; within the spreading perianth there is a tubular crown or corona, having six lobes and a membranous fringe.
The segments, and also the tube, are dotted with dark brown spots; each flower is tightly folded in a somewhat one-sided membranous calyx and borne erect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "membranous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: filmy; foliated; laminated; layered; leafy; membranous; stratified
