veined

comparative more veined · superlative most veined

1. in compoundssometimesHaving veins or veinlike markings.

   veined cheese, veined marble

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   These blue-vein’d violets whereon we lean Never can blab, nor know not what we mean.

   1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC

   A queenly creature with her quiet grace, And dazzling white hand veined cerulean:

   1856, Gerald Massey, Craigcrook Castle, London: David Bogue, page 15

   For a moment he silently scrutinised the attentive group out of his filmy blue eyes overhung by old veined lids […]

   1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Book I, Chapter 1

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of vein