protective membrane

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protective
adjective
uk
/prəˈtek.tɪv/us
/prəˈtek.tɪv/
giving ...
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membrane
noun[C or U]
us
//uk
/ˈmem.breɪn/
anatomy
a thin piece of skin that covers or connects parts of a person's or ...
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This was a crucial move in the creation of aprotectivemembrane, which gave passage to some and excluded others.
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The hedgehogs are birthed with aprotectivemembranecovering their quills, which dries and shrinks over the next several hours.
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The instructions were that the landfill should remain wet/moist to create a safeprotectivemembrane.
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Young specimens are covered entirely by an easily removed thinprotectivemembrane.
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In cephalopods, the dactylus is narrow and often characterized by the asymmetrical placement of suckers (i.e., the ventral expansion of the club) and the absence of a dorsalprotectivemembrane.
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The covering and protective membranes for the dorsal body cavity are the meninges.
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The dorsal and ventral protective membranes are not joined at the base of the club, but fused to the tentacular stalk.
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The head is large with well-developed transparent protective membranes (the adipose eyelid) covering the eyes.
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The second pair has elongated and swollen tips, with reduced protective membranes.
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The left and right third arms have protective membranes greater in width than the arm width.
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The evolution of networks of cooperating genes ultimately led to the enclosure of separate hypercycles within protective membranes to form proto-cells, the second major evolutionary transition.
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