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ˈveinulet rare. [f. vein n. Cf. venule.] A small vein or veinlet. Recent Dicts. also give veinule ‘a minute vein, a venule’, as a term of Bot. and Geol. (perh. after F. veinule).
1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. ii. vi. 105 There is plenty of blood..running back from the remotest Veinulets or smallest branches of the Veins. 1846–50A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 85 The secondary branches, or those sent off from the veinlets, are the veinulets. |