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venation

venation noun: the arrangement of veins in a leaf, wing, or similar structure.

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

venation meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

venation in Tamil

நரம்பமைப்பு, சிரை இரத்த ஓட்ட அமைப்பு

venation in Urdu

رگ بندی

venation in Malayalam

സിരാവിന്യാസം, ഇലകളിൽ സിരകൾ ക്രമീകരിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന രീതി

Forms of venation

pluralvenations

Origin of venation

From Latin vēna (“vein”) + -ation.

Borrowed from Latin vēnātio. Doublet of venison and venatio.

Words formed from venation

Questions about venation

What does venation mean?
Venation means the arrangement of veins in a leaf, wing, or similar structure.
What is venation in Tamil?
Venation in Tamil is நரம்பமைப்பு, சிரை இரத்த ஓட்ட அமைப்பு. See Venation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is venation?
Venation is a noun.
What is the plural of venation?
The plural of venation is venations.

Words near venation in the dictionary

  1. venatic
  2. venatica
  3. venatical
  4. venatically
  5. venatio
  6. venation
  7. venational
  8. venationes
  9. venations
  10. venatorial
  11. venatorian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: venation (page history and authors); venation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); venation (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); venation (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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