interveined
English
Etymology
Adjective
interveined (comparative more interveined, superlative most interveined)
- (botany or figurative) intersected with, or as if with, veins
- interveined lamellae
- interveined spores
- 1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 67, lines 255–257:
- from his ſide two rivers flow'd, / Th' one winding, the other ſtrait and left between / Fair Champain with leſs rivers interveind, / Then meting joyn'd thir tribute to the Sea
References
- “interveined”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.