English Explanatory Dictionary

vein

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
  2. The entrails of a shrimp.
  3. In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
  4. The nervure of an insect’s wing.
  5. A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
  6. A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
  7. A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
  8. A style, tendency, or quality.
  9. A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
verb
  1. To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.

Pronunciation

vān /veɪn/ en-us-vein.ogg /ven/ /vein/

Word forms

vein veins wayn veining veined

Etymology

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

Synonyms

vena

Related words

venation venous artery blood vessel capillary circulatory system phlebitis vena cava

Derived words

anal vein antenodal vein axillary vein azygos vein azygous vein ball vein basilic vein blue vein blue-veined cheese brachiocephalic vein cardinal vein citrus vein phloem degeneration collateral vein common iliac vein deep-vein thrombosis deep vein thrombosis drain the main vein emissary vein femoral vein fissure vein gate vein Giacomini vein great cardiac vein great cerebral vein greater saphenous vein great saphenous vein hepatic portal vein hepatic vein in a similar vein infraorbital vein innominate vein internal jugular vein in the same vein in the vein of jugular vein lesser saphenous vein maxillary vein pancreatic vein portal vein pulmonary vein radial vein renal vein saddle vein saphenous vein satellite vein small saphenous vein spider vein splenic vein subclavian vein superior mesenteric vein Sylvian vein tail vein testicular vein Thebesian vein umbilical vein varicose vein veined veinless veinlet veinlike
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