Zool. [f. L. vēl-um VELUM.] Furnished with a velum or sail-like membrane.
1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 527/2. The physiologist, in contemplating the structure of the velated arms [of the octopus], is compelled to disallow them the power of being … expanded to meet the breeze.
1895. A. H. Cooke, in Molluscs & Brachiopods, 384. The principal agents in the deposition of the shell [of young Argonauta] are the two velated or web-like arms.
