Usually means: Membrane covering certain anatomical openings.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. velum: Merriam-Webster
  2. velum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. velum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. velum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. velum: Vocabulary.com
  6. velum: Wordnik
  7. velum: Wiktionary
  8. velum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. velum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. velum: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. velum: Dictionary.com
  12. Velum (disambiguation), Velum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Velum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. velum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. velum: Rhymezone
  16. Velum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. velum: FreeDictionary.org
  18. velum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. velum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. velum: Global Glossary
  2. Velum: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Velum (anatomy), Velum (physiology), velum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. velum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Velum (anatomy), Velum (physiology), velum: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. velum: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  3. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See vela as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (velum)

noun:  a thin membrane resembling a veil or curtain, such as:
noun:  (anatomy) the soft palate
noun:  (botany) a thin membrane partially covering the cluster of sporangia near the leaf base in quillworts and their extinct relatives
noun:  (mycology) a veil-like membrane of immature mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is torn by growth, to reveal the gills
noun:  (malacology) a locomotory and feeding organ provided with cilia found in the larval stage of bivalves
noun:  (zoology) a annular membrane, typically bordering a cavity, especially in certain molluscs, medusae, and other invertebrates
noun:  a delicate membrane found on certain protists
noun:  (meteorology) an accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance; normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus

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