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• noun
  1. A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
  2. (in plural) 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 topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
  7. A style, tendency, or quality.
  8. A fissure, cleft or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
• verb
  1. To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.

• She could see the blue veins beneath his translucent skin.
• The miner searched tirelessly for gold in the deep veins of the mountain.
• His poetry flowed like blood through the veins of literature.
• The river veins spread out across the delta, nourishing fertile fields.
• The engineer mapped the intricate veins of wires inside the circuit board.

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