membral
English
Etymology
From Latin membrum + -al.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɛmbɹəl/
Adjective
membral (not comparable)
- (now rare) Relating to a member, in various senses; especially, (anatomy, zoology) pertaining to a limb.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.12:
- This man speakes of an unnaturall ill-favourdnesse and membrall deformity, but we call ill-favourdnesse a kinde of unseemelinesse at the first sight, which chiefely lodgeth in the face, and by the colour worketh a dislike in us.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.12: