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单词 black-veined
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black-veinedadj.

Brit. /ˌblakˈveɪnd/, U.S. /ˈblækˈveɪnd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., veined adj.
Etymology: < black adj. + veined adj. Compare Hellenistic Greek μελανόϕλεψ (in a medical writer).
Having black veins (in various senses).
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adjective] > veined
veined1612
black-veined1625
veiny1677
red-veined1717
venular1724
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. viii. viii. 1314 A piece of a Pillar..is..about three foot high, of a duskie black-veind Marble.
1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. V. Index Agate,..black veined and brown.
1797 G. Humphreys Museum Calonnianum 63 [Chersina] Venosa—Le Veiné—Black Veined—Mexico.
1826 Ann. Reg. 1825 70/1 The entablatures..are cut in gold, and surmounted by a slab of black-veined marble.
1853 Eclectic Mag. Aug. 474/1 He covers with his aged, black-veined hand, The plumy crest that frightened..the ill-fated child.
1862 H. D. Thoreau in Atlantic Monthly June 674/2 There is some little black-veined brook in the midst of the marsh.
1916 Standard Cycl. Hort. V. 2480/2 Dorsal sepal..striped with very deep crimson and black-veined.
1975 Country Life 20 Feb. 450/1 The magnificent black-veined brown or monarch butterfly, that rare migrant to Britain.
2009 S. Kenyon Born of Fire 234 As far as the light carried, all she could see were bronze plaques placed on the black-veined marble walls.

Compounds

black-veined white n. (more fully black-veined white butterfly) a Palaearctic pierid butterfly, Aporia crataegi, having white wings with black veins, and larvae which feed chiefly on leaves of Prunus species.This butterfly became extinct in the British Isles around 1925.
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1766 M. Harris Aurelian 20 (heading) The Black Veined White.
1864 J. G. Wood Our Garden Friends & Foes 324 These are the eggs of the Black-veined White Butterfly.
1999 Guardian 12 July i. 16/4 We enjoyed a few hours of what can only be described as butterfly heaven. Marbled, bath and black-veined whites cruise constantly across fields of iris.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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