nervose

Adjective

nervose (not comparable)

1. nerved; having prominent veins.
   • A foot or more high, leaves oblong-lanceolate, the upper usually ovate-lanceolate and sessile by a nervose veined base; pedicels shorter than the acute lobes of the calyx ; the lower lip or the corolla violet or rose-purple and the upper paler to nearly white; the saccate throat very oblique to the...1879, Volney Rattan, A Popular California Flora, page 91
2. For or pertaining to the nerves.
   • I ordered an injection to be thrown up three or four times a day, and she took a nervose mixture with tinct. valer. and castor, which method fhe continued till the 22d of December.1758, Pugh, “A remarkable case in midwifry”, in The critical review, or annals of literature volume=5, page 68
   • It belongs only to a higher grade of perfection, or to a nervose condition of the digestive process, to perceive the rationale of the decomposition, or the spiritual conflict, which prevails between the matters, when they are about to separate.1847, Lorenz Oken, Elements of Physiophilosophy - Volume 10, page 463