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nervation|nɜːˈveɪʃən|
[ad. L. type *nervātiōn-em, f. *nervāre: see prec. Cf. F. nervation.]
†1. (See quot.) Obs. rare—0.
1721Bailey, Nervation, a joining together, a strengthening as it were by Sinews.
2. Bot. The disposition of the fibro-vascular bundles in the blades of leaves, etc.
1849Balfour Man. Bot. §141 The distribution of the veins has been called Venation, sometimes Nervation. 1854Hooker Himal. Jrnls. I. i. 8 The outlines of the fronds of ferns and their nervation. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 168 Those vessels..which traverse the nervation of the leaf.
3. The action of the nerves.
1851J. W. Haddock (title) Somnolism and Psycheism; or, the Science of the Soul, and the Phenomena of Nervation, as Revealed in Vital Magnetism.
So ˈnervature.
1866Duke of Argyll Reign of Law iv. 195 In the mantis the tracery..is drawn in imitation of the nervature of a leaf. |