Definitions for nervures

nervures ner·vure

Spelling: [nur-vyoo r]
IPA: /ˈnɜr vyʊər/

Nervures is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in nervures (eenrrsuv).

Definitions for nervures

noun

  1. Botany, Zoology. a vein, as of a leaf or the wing of an insect.
  2. Botany, Zoology. a vein, as of a leaf or the wing of an insect.

Origin of nervures

1810-20; French: rib. See nerve, -ure

Examples for nervures

Wings whose margin is every where strengthened by a nervure.

When a nervure, or a branch of it, after running towards the apex of the wing, turns back and runs towards the base.

It is to be observed that in the secondary folds of these wings the angles of the folds are surmounted by a nervure.

When an areolet juts out on one side into an angle from which no nervure proceeds, to form another areolet.

The second principal, and often strongest, nervure of the wing.

Neuron, nū′ron, n. the cerebro-spinal axis in its entirety: a nervure of an insect's wing.

A nervure that in some cases intervenes between the externo-medial and interno-medial.

A nervure that in some cases intervenes between the externo-medial and interno-medial.

It is to be observed that in the secondary folds of these wings the angles of the folds are surmounted by a nervure.

When a nervure, or a branch of it, after running towards the apex of the wing, turns back and runs towards the base.

The second principal, and often strongest, nervure of the wing.

When an areolet juts out on one side into an angle from which no nervure proceeds, to form another areolet.

Wings whose margin is every where strengthened by a nervure.

Neuron, nū′ron, n. the cerebro-spinal axis in its entirety: a nervure of an insect's wing.

Word Value for nervures
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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