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veinal

veinal adjective: pertaining to or contained in veins, especially the veins of a leaf.

Adjective

veinal (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to or contained in veins, especially the veins of a leaf.
    • He supplemented the already-satisfying mixture with his secret touch […], which was to employ a sprinkling of Cobalt Blue, this simulating the depleted veinal blood that circulated just below the human epidermis.2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 56

Origin of veinal

From vein + -al.

Words formed from veinal

Questions about veinal

What does veinal mean?
Veinal means pertaining to or contained in veins, especially the veins of a leaf.
What part of speech is veinal?
Veinal is an adjective.

Words near veinal in the dictionary

  1. vein quartz
  2. vein valve
  3. vein valves
  4. veinage
  5. Veinakhia
  6. veinal
  7. veination
  8. veinations
  9. veinbanding
  10. veined
  11. veiner

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