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venation en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From Latin vēna (“vein”) + -ation.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) 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:

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Deriveds

venational

venation en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vēnātio. Doublet of venison and venatio.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) 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 fishes 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

Translations (4)

fi suonikkuus (state of having veins, or pattern of veins) · ca venació (state of having veins, or pattern of veins) · fi suonitus (state of having veins, or pattern of veins) · de Geäder (state of having veins, or pattern of veins)