Adjective: venous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more venous |
| Superlative | most venous |
Sample Sentences
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Her venous circulation was poor, leading to varicose veins.
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It was a sample of venous tissue.
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The tree has highly serrated and venous leaves.
Adjectives inflected like venous
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Morphologically vein + -ous, which is a borrowing from Latin vēnōsus (“full of veins, veiny”), from vēna (“a blood vessel, vein”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of venose. See: Latin Adjectives '
vēnōsus'.
Verbs referencing "venous"
Finnish Adjectives
venoosi.