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Definition of Nerved
1. a. Having nerves of a special character; as, weak- nerved.
Definition of Nerved
1. Verb. (past of nerve) ¹
2. Adjective. (botany) Having one or more principal veins, especially of a leaf. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nerved
1. nerve [v] - See also: nerve
Medical Definition of Nerved
1.
1. Having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nerved
Literary usage of Nerved
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"Petals l-nerved. 26. ... tips solid obtuse, petals minute l-nerved, lip minute
sessile papillose. Stelis odoratissima, Smith in Eees Cyclop, xxxiv. ..."
2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Spikes 3 to 5 ; male 1 : perigynium covered with long white hairs, sharply
triangular-ellipsoidal, acute at each end, 1 -4-nerved on the sides, ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Leaves with broad blades, mostly lanceolate or ovate, many-nerved. ... Leaves with
narrow blades, capillary or setaceous, i-nerved or nerveless. ..."
4. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"Panicle simple and scanty, partly included in the leaf-sheath. Spikelets remotely
2 to 5-flowered. Outer glumes much shorter than the flowers, 1-nerved ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... calyx-lobes oblong-triangular, very obtuse; petals oblong, 3-nerved with a
yellow spot at the base (occasionally also spotted with purplish red dots). ..."
6. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"¡ill Dearly linear, (in ¡re, 1-nerved, rigid, small ; the larger (less than inch
long and 2 lilies wide) narro«' e of the slender and strongly ..."
7. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"guished by its usually shorter stature, by the 7-nerved ... Bractlets rigid, 5
to 7-nerved, 2-toothed, that of the lower Bracts persistent, scarious (in ..."
8. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"Floating leaves 6"-8" long, commonly 5-nerved. ORDER 139. AUSMACHE. ... Marsh herbs,
usually with creeping runners or rootstocks, nerved and reticulated ..."