单词 | veinulet |
释义 | veinuletn.ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [noun] > small riveret1615 veinlet1652 veinulet1662 venule1766 1662 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anatomy ii. vi. 105/1 There is plenty of blood enough to distend it [sc. the heart], not so much furnished from the Liver, as from the ascendent and descendent branches of the Cava, running back from the remotest Veinulets [L. venulis] or smallest branches of the Veins. 2. Botany. A branch of a veinlet of a leaf. Now rare. ΚΠ 1847 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) xii. 85 The secondary branches, or those sent off from the veinlets, are the veinulets. 1855 Analyt. Class-bk. Bot. i. xviii. 46/1 Veinulets are still more remote subdivisions, the ultimate radiations of which are often so fine as to elude the naked eye. 1907 J. Davey Tree Doctor (new ed.) 119 You look at its petiole, veinlets and veinulets. 1942 Brittonia 4 255 The ‘ultimate veinlets’ are the veinulets or the branches of the ultimate divisions of the veinlets. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1662 |
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