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

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veinlet

Indusium straight or rarely curved, fixed lengthwise on the upper side of a fertile veinlet, opening toward the midrib.

From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton

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 Olive Tilford Dargan

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

From Among the Forces by Henry White Warren

Sori on the upper side or rarely on both sides of a veinlet.

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

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton