veinless
- 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
Two massive stones, of veinless white marble, mark the head and the foot of the scarcely perceptible mound.
From Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 by Various
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 Gray, Asa
Our species belong to the typical section, with the crown simple and unappendaged, and the corolla nearly veinless.
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
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 Gray, Asa
