Usually means: Specialized, spongy covering of orchid roots.
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  1. velamen: Merriam-Webster
  2. velamen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. velamen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. velamen: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. velamen: Wiktionary
  7. velamen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. velamen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. velamen: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. velamen: Dictionary.com
  11. Velamen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. velamen: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. velamen: Medical dictionary

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  1. ORCHID GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

(Note: See velamina as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (velamen)

noun:  (anatomy) A covering membrane or velum
noun:  (botany) A spongy, usually pale, multiseriate epidermis (i.e. consisting of multiple layers of cells) covering the roots of some kinds of plants, especially plant species with an epiphytic or semi-epiphytic habit. Examples include various orchid and Clivia species

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