velamen in English
noun
1
an outer layer of empty cells in the aerial roots of epiphytic orchids and aroids.
Over watering turns the velamen brown and mushy and the roots lose their ability to absorb water.
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1. The Corporal was described as palla Corporalis, or velamen dominic mens, or opertorium dominici corporis, etc.; and it seems generally to have been of linen, though we hear of altar-cloths of silk (Greg