veinlet

American  

[veyn-lit] / ˈveɪn lɪt /

noun

1. a small vein.

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veinlet British  

/ ˈveɪnlɪt /

noun

1. any small vein or venule

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Etymology

Origin of veinlet

First recorded in 1825–35; vein + -let

Example Sentences

Sporangia much as in Schizæa, but oblique, fixed to the veinlet by the inner side next the base, one or rarely two covered by each indusium.

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

Sporangia borne in a double row on narrow fertile segments, each sporangium seated on a separate veinlet, and provided with a special scale-like indusium.

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

At Makná I was much puzzled by the presence of the porous basalt, which had yielded to the first Expedition a veinlet of "electron"—gold and silver mixed by the hand of Nature.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Or that he may, o'er-weighed with seasons due, Forget one Spring where veinlet tendrils lace Rose over rose to make this flower, thy face?

From Path Flower and Other Verses by Dargan, Olive Tilford

But how is material conveyed from rootlet to veinlet of leaf hundreds of feet away?

From Among the Forces by Warren, Henry White