- any of various veillike or curtainlike membranous partitions.
- the soft palate.
- a thin cloud, large in horizontal area, that is draped over or penetrated by cumuliform clouds.
- any of various membranous structures, such as the ciliated oral membrane of certain mollusc larvae or the veil-like membrane running around the rim of a jellyfish
- any of various veil-like bodily structures, esp the soft palate
- botany another word for veil (def. 6)
