Any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ.
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Examples for "vein "
Examples for "vein "
1 The company said results had continued in a similar vein this month.
2 This vein of talk is a sure way of ruining an evening.
3 We continued in this vein for the best part of a year.
4 But the time came when the King was not in the vein .
5 There's more in that vein to come if the Tories retain power.
1 Anterior wings with two submarginal cells and one recurrent nervure .
2 Each space is surrounded by a strong nervure and goffered by slight wrinkles or depressions.
3 NEURATION.-Thearrangement of the veins or nervures in the wings of insects.
4 The crickets stridulate by rubbing together the strong nervures of the fore wings.
5 The anterior wings with two submarginal cells and two recurrent nervures .
6 I see other nervures in the intervals, pale and very fine.
7 Numerous nervures , spreading out fan-wise, cross them in the direction of their length.
8 I see a bundle of moderately strong nervures radiating fan-wise.
9 Finally, still more delicate, and running transversely, a number of very short nervures complete the pattern.
10 It will be found that the two bows-thatis, the toothed or indented nervures - cross one another obliquely.
11 One by one the branching nervures hardened.
12 The instrument by which it produces its music is contrived out of the ordinary nervures of the wing-case.
13 This lateral fold encloses the flank of the abdomen and is covered with fine oblique and parallel nervures .
14 I can plainly recognise the longitudinal nervures , which are already stiff; and I can also see-pale, and without relief-thetransverse nervures .
15 It is, as before, a dry white scale, convex on the outside, and crossed by a bundle of fine reddish-brown nervures .
16 In the dragon-flies, the nervures are minutely netted for the sake of increased strength; in the bees, the nervures are simply parallel.
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