neuration
nounEtymology From neuro- + -ation.
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Biology, Natural sciences The arrangement or distribution of veins (nerves), as in the leaves of a plant or the wings of an insect.
- Some examples are very dark in colour, and then the pale neurations on the elytra become almost obsolete.1891, George Bowdler Buckton, Monograph of the British Cicadae or Tettigidae, volume 2, page 81:
- Synonyms
- nervation