venation meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

venation

noun

Etymology From Latin vēna (“vein”) + -ation.

Biology, Botany, Entomology, Natural sciences The arrangement of veins in a leaf, wing, or similar structure.

For instance, native plants in the Mascarenes developed several adaptations, such as serrated leafs^([sic]) and leafs^([sic]) with red venation, to deter tortoise browsing (Cheke & Hume, 2010).2017 March 1, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:

noun

Etymology Borrowed from Latin vēnātio. Doublet of venison and venatio.

Obsolete The hunting of wild animals.

There are extant of his in Greek, four books of Cynegeticks or Venation, five of Halieuticks or Piscation, commented and published by Ritterhusius; wherein describing beasts of venery and fishes1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

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