anal vein

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noun

one of several veins in the rear portion of the wing of an insect.

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Rather than downing a handful of pills, I planned to take my life by opening a vein in each wrist.
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Through it runs a vein about one vara wide, extending east and west for some distance.
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The length of the fibre, moreover, cannot be determined with any absolute certainty from the thickness of the vein.
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We have likewise found a vein of plumbago, which was an object of search, on the supposition that it was coal.
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The specimen of this breccia is attached to a plate of granular quartz, and may possibly have been part of a vein.
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