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The hunting of wild animals.
Examples of venation in a Sentence
A leaf with only a single midrib is said to be unicostate and the venation is described as pinnate or feather-veined.
The venation is radiating.
The leaf in this case is multicostate and the venation palmate.
The leaves of Monocotyledons have generally this kind of venation, while reticulated venation most usually occurs amongst Dicotyledons.
To a distribution of veins such as this the name of reticulated or netted venation has been applied.
Some plants, which in most points of their structure are monocotyledonous, yet have reticulated venation; as in Smilax and Dioscorea.
The first book with his imprint is The Psalms of David Imitated in For the prevention of counterfeiting continental paper money Franklin long afterwards suggested the use on the different denominations of different leaves, having noted the infinite variety of leaf venation.
The fibro-vascular system in the leaf constitutes the venation.
The term dissected is applied to leaves with radiating venation, having numerous narrow divisions, as in Geranium dissectum.
When the vascular bundles reach the base of the lamina they separate and spread out in various ways, as already described under venation.
The venation is like that of many ferns, e.g.
The leaves, which are borne in pairs at the tumid nodes, are oval in form and have a Dicotyledonous type of venation.
The venation is useful as pointing out the number of leaves which constitute a gamosepalous calyx.
The number of parts forming such a corolla can be determined by the divisions, whether existing as teeth, crenations, fissures or partitions, or if, as rarely happens, the corolla is entire, by the venation.
When the union is incomplete, the number of the parts of a compound pistil may be determined by the number of styles and stigmas; when complete, the external venation, the grooves on the surface, and the internal divisions of the ovary indicate the number.
In such carbonaceous impression not only are the form and markings, such as venation, perfectly preserved, but something of the actual structure may remain.
It is, however, probable that a considerable group of true Ferns, allied to Marattiaceae, existed in Palaeozoic times, side by side with simpler forms. In one respect the fronds of many Palaeozoic Ferns and Pteridosperms were peculiar, namely, in the presence on their rachis, and at the base of their pinnae, of anomalous leaflets, often totally different in form and venation from the ordinary pinnules.
This genus, from the Permo-Carboniferous of Autun, is represented by large, fleshy, reniform leaves or leaflets, with radiating dichotomous venation; the vascular bundles have in all respects the structure of those in the leaves of Cycads or Cordaiteae.
Alternating bars of light cast a pale glow through the venation blinds on her near-white body.
If you compare the venation with a dragonfly for example, the latter have much more complex venation and smaller ' cells ' .
If you compare the venation with a dragonfly for example, the latter have much more complex venation and smaller ' cells '.
The arrangement of the fibro-vascular system in the lamina constitutes the venation or nervation.
In Anomochloa there are several nearly equal ribs and in some broad-leaved grasses (Bambuseae, Pharus, Leptaspis) the venation becomes tesselated by transverse connecting veins.
The venation is strictly parallel, the midrib usually strong, and the other ribs more slender.