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cross-vein
[ kraws-veyn, kros- ]
noun
- a transverse vein that connects adjacent longitudinal veins in the wing of an insect.
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Example Sentences
The cross-vein and the cell normally cut off by it are absent.
Hypotenuses: in Odonata; the simple or broken cross-vein between media 4, and cubitus 1, forming outer boundary of triangle.
The cross-vein between the third and the fourth veins is often absent because of the shifting.
You will sever the big cross vein that connects the two "jugular" veins in the neck, and the blood will pour out of the mouth.
Then the Deemster went over once more to the cottage at the Cross Vein, alone, and in the night.
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