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▪ I. veˈnation1 Now rare or Obs.
Also 4 venacyon.
[ad. L. vēnātio, f. vēnārī to hunt. So F. vénation († venacion), It. venazione.]
The action or occupation of hunting wild animals.
1386Almanak 17 In December..þe son es in Capricorn, for Esau by venacyon lost hys fader benyson. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iv. xi. (1611) 217 The last of the foresaid Arts wee reckoned to bee Venation, which Plato divideth into three species, Hunting, Hawking and Fishing. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. viii. 32 There are extant of his in Greeke, foure bookes of Cynegeticks or venation. Ibid. vi. vi, At one venation the King of Siam took four thousand Elephants. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. 249 Some in ferine Venation take delight. 1832Fraser's Mag. VI. 160 What sumphs all the ancients were in venation, notwithstanding their boasted prowess!
▪ II. venation2|vɪˈneɪʃən|
[f. L. vēna vein n.]
†1. The arrangement or structure of sap-vessels in plants. Obs.—1
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. i. 106 As for the manner of their venation,..we shall find it to be otherwise then as is commonly presumed, by sawing away of trees.
2. a. Bot. The arrangement of the veins in the leaves of plants.
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. Introd. p. xxii, Many other orders are distinguished without exception by modifications of venation. 1851G. F. Richardson Geol. vii. 170 In leaves we can rarely recognise, in a fossil state, more than their mode of venation, division, arrangement, and outline. 1890Science Gossip XXVI. 181, I took a specimen..with six well-developed leaves, the venation being very distinct.
b. Ent. The arrangement of the veins in the wings of insects.
1861–2Le Conte Classif. Coleoptera N. Amer. i. Introd. p. xviii, The venation is subject to variation in different genera. 1891Science Gossip XXVII. 53 The venation in many genera [of the Nematocera] varies in the relative lengths of some of the veins and their respective positions.
Hence veˈnational a., of or relating to venation.
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