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(obsolete) The hunting of wild animals. quotations
There are extant of his in Greek, four books of Cynegeticks or Venation, five of Halieuticks or Piscation, commented and published by Ritterhusius; wherein describing beasts of venery and fishes
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […]
countable and uncountable, plural venations
(botany, entomology) The arrangement of veins in a leaf, wing, or similar structure. quotations
For instance, native plants in the Mascarenes developed several adaptations, such as serrated leafs[sic] and leafs[sic] with red venation, to deter tortoise browsing (Cheke & Hume, 2010).
2017 March 1, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian