venation
noun
venation is a noun meaning “The arrangement of veins in a leaf, wing, or similar structure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-N-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of venation is venations.
What does venation mean?
noun
- 1
The arrangement of veins in a leaf, wing, or similar structure.
- 2
obsoleteThe hunting of wild animals.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of venation
- venations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is venation?
Venation appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Venation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense state of having veins, or pattern of veins:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Geäder |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does venation come from?
From Latin vēna (“vein”) + -ation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).