velum

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Foot divided into two, posterior half bearing the operculum; a wide epipodial velum; shell turbinated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

Head broad, surrounded by a funnel-shaped velum or hood; no radula; dorsal appendages foliaceous.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

Magnivelaris is from magnus, large; velum, a veil.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

The room had been built for a smaller studio, and was lit from the roof, blinds being contrived so as to draw like a Roman velum across the glass.

From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by Fenn, George Manville

There is a veliger stage in development, but the velum is reduced.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various