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Spell Bee Word: membrane


Basic Details

Word: Membrane

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: A very thin layer of skin or tissue that covers, lines or separates parts of a living thing. Every cell is wrapped in a membrane.

Synonyms: layer, film

How to Spell Membrane

Syllables: mem - brane

Tricky part: The second part is brane, not brain. It also has no extra e after mem, so memberane is wrong.

Watch out for: membrain, memberane, membran

Memory tip: There is no brain in a membrane. Picture a crane lifting a thin sheet: the ending is brane, like crane.

Usage Examples

Example 1: Under the microscope we could see the cell membrane as a thin outline.

Example 2: The eardrum is a membrane that shakes when sound waves hit it.

Example 3: A bat's wings are made of a stretchy membrane between its long finger bones.

Fun Fact

A cell membrane is so thin that it would take thousands of them stacked together to match the thickness of a sheet of paper.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) membrane
b) cytoplazm
c) neucleus
d) tisue

Show answer

a) membrane. Nucleus begins nu, tissue has ss and cytoplasm ends in sm, so only the thin-layer word is right.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

bermmane

a) membrane
b) member
c) remember
d) embrace

Show answer

a) membrane. Eight letters with an a and an n: the others either lack an n or are too short.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

When you boil an egg and peel it, a thin membrain often sticks to the shell.

a) boil
b) often
c) membrain
d) shell

Show answer

c) membrain. This thin skin is spelt brane at the end, not like the brain in your head.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A membrane is ____.

a) a type of blood
b) a thin covering layer
c) a large muscle
d) a kind of bone

Show answer

b) a thin covering layer

2. Which part of the ear is a membrane?

a) the earlobe hair
b) the eardrum
c) the ear wax
d) the earring

Show answer

b) the eardrum

Associated Words

languagegratefulpersonificationbristlewildlife
sparsemicroscopedepressionamenddomineering

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