Definition of Nervatures

1. nervature [n] - See also: nervature

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nervatures

nero
nerol
neroli
neroli oil
nerolidol
nerolis
nerols
neropteral
nerts
nertz
nerval
nervate
nervation
nervations
nervature
nervatures (current term)
nerve
nerve-ending
nerve-racking
nerve-shaken
nerve-shredding
nerve-wracking
nerve agent
nerve agents
nerve avulsion
nerve biopsy
nerve block
nerve block anaesthesia
nerve block anesthesia
nerve cell

Literary usage of Nervatures

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy by Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (1832)
"... thinner, less regular in form, and of a pale yellow; moreover, the nervatures of the leaves and seed vessels are precisely similar to the Alexandrian; ..."

2. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"The wings are limpid, with the base tinted with yellowish-red chiefly at the base of the hindwings, the stigma is yellow, and the principal nervatures are ..."

3. Aërial Navigation: A Practical Handbook on the Construction of Dirigible by Frederick Walker (1902)
"Since the radius c is thicker than the other nervatures, it forms with the stigma a cup or concavity approximately fitting the edge of the elytra a. ..."

4. Near Home.: A Poem. by William Ellery Channing (1858)
"... hairs and nervatures, Joints and articulations, leaves and cells, She calls her varied creatures into space. But what behind the ever-changeful thought, ..."

5. Near Home.: A Poem. by William Ellery Channing (1858)
"With spines and veins, with hairs and nervatures, Joints and articulations, leaves and cells, She calls her varied creatures into space. ..."

6. Aërial Navigation: A Practical Handbook on the Construction of Dirigible Ballons by C. E. Frederick Walker (1902)
"Since the radius c is thicker than the other nervatures, it forms with the stigma a cup or concavity approximately fitting the edge of the elytra a. ..."

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