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Meaning:

Noun:

  • anatomy A capillaries back to the heart.
  • A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
  • A style, tendency, or quality of something.
  • A topic of discussion.
  • botany In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
  • (''used in plural'' '''veins''') The entrails of a shrimp.
  • zoology The nervure of an insect?s wing.

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