net-veined

[ net-veynd ]

adjective

, Botany.

1. having branched veins that form a network, as the leaves of most dicotyledonous plants.

Word History and Origins

Origin of net-veined¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

Wings usually well developed, net-veined; the fore-wings of firmer texture than the hind-wings, whose anal area folds fanwise beneath them.

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Membranous, net-veined wings, those of the two pairs closely alike.

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Net′ty, like a net; Net′-veined, in entomology, having a great number of veins or nervures like a network on the surface, as in the wings of many Orthoptera; Net′-winged, having net-veined wings.—n.

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Fruit large to very large, regular, oblate; surface smooth, yellow, more or less covered with marbled red, and scarlet stripes; Dots large, yellow, indented, sometimes irregularly net-veined, making it less smooth.

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The skin itself may be either thick or thin, smooth, rough, or polished, and it is sometimes uneven; it may be covered with a bloom, it may be russeted in whole or in part, and this may be thickly or thinly spread over the surface, or only net-veined.

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