单词 | venation |
释义 | venationn.1 Now rare or Obsolete. The action or occupation of hunting wild animals. ΘΚΠ 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.2ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1891 in Cent. Dict. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.11386n.21646 |
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