Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Distribution or arrangement of a system of veins, as in a leaf blade or the wing of an insect.
- noun The veins of such a system considered as a group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or practice of hunting; pursuit of game.
- noun The state of being hunted.
- noun In botany, the manner in which veins or nerves are distributed in the blade of a leaf or other expanded organ. See
nervation . - noun In entomology: The mode or system of distribution of the veins of the wings, These veins or nervures, collectively considered as to their arrangement. See vein, 3, and cut under
nervure .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See
Illust. in Appendix. - noun obsolete The act or art of hunting, or the state of being hunted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of having
veins , or the pattern of veins or vein-like structures within a larger entity.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (botany) the arrangement of veins in a leaf
- noun (zoology) the system of venous blood vessels in an animal
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Examples
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Pineapples have simple leaves with spiny margins and parallel leaf venation, which is typical of
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Pineapples have simple leaves with spiny margins and parallel leaf venation, which is typical of
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Pineapples have simple leaves with spiny margins and parallel leaf venation, which is typical of
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I am primarily interested in the venation of the lungs of pulmonate land snails.
Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009
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Good story and lots of noir stuff like stairwells, shadows, venation blinds, and guys in hats. jeischen says:
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I am primarily interested in the venation of the lungs of pulmonate land snails.
The mantle cavity of Rumina saharica AYDIN 2009
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Variation in venation patterns of the wings and diversity of genital structures are used to distinguish species.
Insecta (Aquatic) 2008
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Pulmonary cavity sunken below mantle, its volume difficult to establish, and without obvious venation.
Is it a slug? Is it a ghost? It's Selenochlamys ysbryda AYDIN 2008
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Pulmonary cavity sunken below mantle, its volume difficult to establish, and without obvious venation.
Archive 2008-09-01 AYDIN 2008
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The wing venation and location of specific hairs are the structures used to distinguish different species of fly.
Insecta (Aquatic) 2008
chained_bear commented on the word venation
"... how the insect's hairs are placed and grouped, the formation of the mouth parts, the sex parts, the bewildering pattern of wing venation..."
—Molly Caldwell Crosby, The American Plague (New York: Berkeley Books, 2006), 129
October 6, 2008