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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

Though not a vindictive creature, the thought of an enormous land spider keeping him from the rest and shelter of his lair sent waves of liquid anger pulsing sharply through his veined and veinless body.

From The Mantooth by Leadem, Christopher

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

Pappus less distinctly double, the inner of bristles not thickened at top, the outer shorter; scales well imbricated, appressed, without herbaceous tips; rays violet; achenes narrow, villous; leaves numerous, rigid, small, linear, 1-nerved and 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