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单词 venation
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venationn.1

Brit. /vᵻˈneɪʃn/, U.S. /viˈneɪʃən/
Forms: Also Middle English venacyon.
Etymology: < Latin vēnātio, < vēnārī to hunt. So French vénation (†venacion), Italian venazione.
Now rare or Obsolete.
The action or occupation of hunting wild animals.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun]
huntethc900
huntingc1000
sleatinga1122
purchasec1325
veneryc1330
venation1386
venison1390
the chase?a1400
chasing?a1400
waithc1400
huntc1405
vanchasea1425
enchase1486
vaunt-chase1575
field sport1580
shikara1613
huntsmanshipa1631
cynegetics1646
sport of kings1735
game hunting1823
blood sport1893
1386 Almanak 17 In December..þe son es in Capricorn, for Esau by venacyon lost hys fader benyson.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iv. xi. 217 The last of the foresaid Arts wee reckoned to bee Venation, which Plato diuideth into three Species, Hunting, Hawking, and Fishing.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 32 There are extant of his in Greeke, foure bookes of Cynegeticks or venation . View more context for this quotation
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. vi At one venation the King of Siam took four thousand Elephants.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. Epist. Lymosin 249 Some in ferine Venation take delight.
1832 Fraser's Mag. 6 160 What sumphs all the ancients were in venation, notwithstanding their boasted prowess!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

venationn.2

Brit. /vᵻˈneɪʃn/, U.S. /viˈneɪʃən/
Etymology: < Latin vēna vein n.
1. The arrangement or structure of sap-vessels in plants. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [noun] > fluid, juice, or sap > sap-vessel > arrangement
venation1646
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. i. 106 As for the manner of their venation,..we shall find it to be otherwise then as is commonly presumed, by sawing away of trees. View more context for this quotation
2.
a. Botany. The arrangement of the veins in the leaves of plants.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > part or side of > rib or vein > arrangement of
nervature1821
neuration1826
nervation1830
venation1830
ribbing1857
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. Introd. p. xxii Many other orders are distinguished without exception by modifications of venation.
1851 T. Wright & G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (new ed.) vii. 170 In leaves we can rarely recognise, in a fossil state, more than their mode of venation, division, arrangement, and outline.
1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 181 I took a specimen..with six well-developed leaves, the venation being very distinct.
b. Entomology. The arrangement of the veins in the wings of insects.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > wings(s) > nervure > neuration
neuration1826
venation1861
neurography1880
nervuration1899
1861–2 Le Conte Classif. Coleoptera N. Amer. i. Introd. p. xviii The venation is subject to variation in different genera.
1891 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 27 53 The venation in many genera [of the Nematocera] varies in the relative lengths of some of the veins and their respective positions.

Derivatives

veˈnational adj. of or relating to venation.
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1891 in Cent. Dict.
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