vein
noun
one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.
veinless
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a word derived from
vein.
Example Sentences
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Oxygen reaches the veinless cornea of the eye by diffusing through its tear layer, which is 0.500-mm thick.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
It has a reddish-brown, or purple, leathery, veinless frond, several inches long, and is found at low water adhering to the rocks.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
Chiefly stemless herbs, with regular 4-merous spiked flowers, the stamens inserted on the tube of the dry and membranaceous veinless monopetalous corolla, alternate with its lobes;—chiefly represented by the two following genera.
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 Asa Gray
Pod linear, flattened, usually opening elastically from the base; the valves nerveless and veinless, or nearly so; placentas and partition thick.
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 Asa Gray
Fruit oblong, coriaceous, few-seeded.—Perennial slender submerged herbs, with elongated branching stems, thickly beset with pellucid and veinless, 1-nerved, sessile, whorled or opposite leaves.
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 Asa Gray
