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ner·va·tion

(nûr-vā′shən)

A pattern of veins or nerves; venation.

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nervation

(nɜːˈveɪʃən) or

nervature

(Biology) a less common word for venation

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ve•na•tion

(viˈneɪ ʃən, və-)

n.

1. the arrangement of veins, as in a leaf or in the wing of an insect.

2. these veins collectively.

[1640–50; < Latin vēn(a) vein + -ation]

ve•na′tion•al, adj.

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In his abbreviated description of laboriosa, de Saussure (1854:171) compared to minutissima de Saussure, described immediately before, writing "Taille, forme et nervation comme dans la precedente espece, mais la tete et le corselet sans rugosites." Ducke (1910: 470), in his key, separated minutissima (Spinola), laboriosa and sedula (=exigua as already noted) in one triplet.