venation

1. 1.

   (botany) the arrangement of veins in a leaf

   Broaderarrangement

   Part ofleaf

   botany

2. 2.

   (zoology) the system of venous blood vessels in an animal

   Synonymsvenous blood system

   Broadersystem

   Part ofcirculatory system

   zoology

Other forms of venation

plural

venations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about venation

What does venation mean?

venation means "(botany) the arrangement of veins in a leaf". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in venation?

venation has 4 syllables: ve-na-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for venation?

Close synonyms include venous blood system. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is venation a common word?

venation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.