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nervule

noun

Etymology

From either nervure + -ule or nerve + -ule.

  1. borrowed from nervure
  2. formed as nervule — “nervure + -ule”

Definitions

  1. A minor, nonsupporting vein in a leaf of a plant

    A minor, nonsupporting vein in a leaf of a plant; a branch vein of a nervure (supporting vein) or of another nervule.

  2. A minor vein in a wing of an insect.

    • A close examination of the wing will always show a partially atrophied disco-cellular, connecting these nervules of the discoidal with either the subcostal or the median nervures, even when one of them has been described as quite free.
    • The origin of the first and second median nervules corresponds to that of the two superior subcostal nervules; and the nervule closing the cell unites with the apical portion of the median nervule at a right angle.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA