neuration

English

Etymology

neuro- +‎ -ation

Noun

neuration (countable and uncountable, plural neurations)

1. (biology) The arrangement or distribution of veins (nerves), as in the leaves of a plant or the wings of an insect.
   • 1891, George Bowdler Buckton, Monograph of the British Cicadae or Tettigidae, volume 2, page 81:

     Some examples are very dark in colour, and then the pale neurations on the elytra become almost obsolete.

Synonyms

• nervation