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membranous (iou) and minicab (oh)


membranous (iou)



membranous adjective. L16.
[French membraneux, formed as MEMBRANE: see -OUS.]
Consisting of, resembling, or of the Nature of (a) membrane; membranaceous; esp. in Botany, thin and more or less translucent. L16.
membranous labyrinth the soft structures of the inner ear, including the cochlea, utricle, saccule, and semicircular canals.
Medicine. Of a disease: involving the formation or expulsion of (a) membrane. L19.

minicab (oh)



a taxi that you have to order by telephone, not one that you can stop in the street