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 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

The stupidities of men go crossing one another; and miles down, at the bottom of all, there is a little veinlet of sense found running at last!

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas

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 Gray, Asa

Sori oblong or linear, borne on a veinlet parallel to the midrib, and covered with a special usually concave or arched indusium attached to the fruiting veinlet, and opening along the inner side.

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

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

From Among the Forces by Warren, Henry White