venation

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Venation is the name of the mode of veining, that is, of the way in which the veins are distributed in the blade.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Changed "Venation" to "Vernation" on page vi: "Vernation or Pr�foliation."

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Venation, ve-nā′shun, n. the way in which the leaves of plants are arranged: in insects, the distribution of the veins of the wings.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various