feather-veined

American  

[feth-er-veynd] / ˈfɛð ərˌveɪnd /

adjective

Botany.

1. (of a leaf ) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.

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feather-veined British  

adjective

1. (of a leaf) having a network of veins branching from the midrib to the margin

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Etymology

Origin of feather-veined

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

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feather-veined

Aromatic, evergreen trees with alternate, entire, feather-veined leaves.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Seeds anatropous, large, with a crustaceous seed-coat, and a minute embryo at the base of the ruminated albumen.—Leaves alternate, entire, feather-veined.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

When the great veins all branch from the midrib, the leaf is feather-veined or pinnate-veined.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Leaves deciduous, 2 to 5 in. long, feather-veined, petioled, ovate, rarely cordate at base, sharply serrate, with stellate hairs.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

In a day, the protective fuzz disappears, and the full-grown leaf is seen, thin, strongly feather-veined, uniformly green, saw-toothed.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen