cross-vein

American  

[kraws-veyn, kros-] / ˈkrɔsˌveɪn, ˈkrɒs- /

noun

Zoology.

1. a transverse vein that connects adjacent longitudinal veins in the wing of an insect.

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Example Sentences

If the principal vein descends on an incline and the cross-vein descends vertically, then a minor triangle is created having one obtuse angle or all three angles acute.

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Nay, further, these same miners, if no stringer or cross-vein intersects the main vein so that they can follow it in their workings, even cross-cut through the solid rock of the hangingwall or footwall.

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Basilar cross-vein: Odonata; crosses the basilar space.

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Oblique vein: in Odonata; an apparent cross-vein situated between M2 and Rs, distal to the level of the nodus and inclined obliquely, from its front end, backward and outward; in reality the basal part of Rs.

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Independent: in Lepidoptera; that vein of the wings that arises from the cross-vein closing the cell, and does not branch directly from any vein reaching the base: it is v.

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