vein

Meanings

Noun

• A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
• The entrails of a shrimp.
• In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
• The nervure of an insect’s wing.
• A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
• A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
• A style, tendency, or quality.
• A fissure, cleft or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.

Verb

• To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.

Related

Similar words

• vena

Origin

• From Middle English veyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna ("a blood-vessel; vein; artery") of uncertain origin. See vēna for more. vena. Displaced native edre, from ǣdre (whence edder).