venation
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In simple venation patterns, one unfortunately placed air bubble could block up to 95% of the venation network, preventing water from flowing through the leaf.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 30, 2024
This Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution was in part driven by a unique innovation in angiosperm leaves: these present a netted hierarchical venation, which allows angiosperm to fix carbon dioxide in a much more efficient way.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
Even the assignment to the subfamily Larentiinae is not entirely secure and is based on a few features like wing venation.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2023
The copperplate lines are so exact they mimic the individual venation of feathers; the neck of a gyrfalcon takes on all the ripply realism of moiréd silk.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
The venation is not distinctly preserved; but enough remains to show that it must have been peculiar,—apparently radiating outwards from a series of centres ranged along the midrib.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller
