velamen|velamina in English
noun
membrane or outer layer; membranous moisture absorbing layer on the aerial roots of some epiphytic plants (non-parasitic plants that grow on the surface of other things, such as rocks)
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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