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veination

veination is the alternative form of venation.

Meaning of venation

Noun (1)

venation (countable and uncountable, plural venations)

  1. The arrangement of veins in a leaf, wing, or similar structure.
    • For instance, native plants in the Mascarenes developed several adaptations, such as serrated leafs^([sic]) and leafs^([sic]) with red venation, to deter tortoise browsing (Cheke & Hume, 2010).2017 March 1, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian

Noun (2)

venation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The hunting of wild animals.
    • There are extant of his in Greek, four books of Cynegeticks or Venation, five of Halieuticks or Piscation, commented and published by Ritterhusius; wherein describing beasts of venery and fishes1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Forms of veination

pluralveinations

Questions about veination

What is veination the alternative form of?
Veination is the alternative form of venation.

Words near veination in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: veination (page history and authors); venation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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