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Indusium :: Indusium (n.) The immediate covering of the fruit dots or sori in many ferns, usually a very thin scale attached by the middle or side to a veinlet..

Pertusion :: Pertusion (n.) The act of punching or piercing with a pointed instrument; as, pertusion of a vein..

Blood Vessel :: Blood vessel () Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein..

Blue-veined :: Blue-veined (a.) Having blue veins or blue streaks.

Dictyogen :: Dictyogen (n.) A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceae, Smilaceae, Trilliaceae, etc..

Marble :: Marble (n.) A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc..

Whinstone :: Whinstone (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt..

Basset :: Basset (v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets..

Parumbilical :: Parumbilical (a.) Near the umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen..

Rib :: Rib (n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.

Dichotomy :: Dichotomy (n.) Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation..

Apex :: Apex (n.) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.

Ranine :: Ranine (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein..

Lazuli :: Lazuli (n.) A mineral of a fine azure-blue color, usually in small rounded masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with some sodium sulphide, is often marked by yellow spots or veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work. Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone..

Veinous :: Veinous (a.) Marked with veins; veined; veiny.

Intralobular :: Intralobular (a.) Within lobules; as, the intralobular branches of the hepatic veins..

Vein :: Vein (n.) One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.

Country :: Country (adv.) The rock through which a vein runs.

Facial :: Facial (a.) Of or pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or nerve..

Costeaning :: Costeaning (n.) The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits..

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