“veins” is a form of
vein
/veɪn/ noun, verb
Forms veins veining veined wayn
- noun (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart. “The nurse hovered her vein finder to locate the veins in the patient's body.”
- noun (in the plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
- noun (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
- noun (zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing.
- noun A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
- noun (geology) A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
- noun (figurative) A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc. “in the same vein”
- noun (figurative) A style, tendency, or quality. “The play is in a satirical vein.”
- verb To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.
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Etymology
From Middle English veine, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See vēna for more. Doublet of vena. Displaced native edre, from ǣdre (whence edder).
Webster’s 1913
- noun One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2.
- noun One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.
- verb To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins.
Etymology [OE. veine, F. veine, L. vena.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “vein”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details