Vein Like

Standing in an eel fisherman's river weir in the cool September dark, watching the vein-like ropes of fish fill his womb of wood and stone, I've come to believe the Maori yarns about encounters they've had with the water guardians. ❋ James Prosek (2010)

It was large, slightly flexible, jet black and bulged with human vein-like texture ❋ Jessica Holter (2010)

This spot beats and moves as though it were alive; and from it, as it grows, two vein-like vessels with blood in them lead on a twisted course to each of the two surrounding membranes. ❋ Lennox, James (2006)

The spores are contained in the thick masses of tissue between the vein-like folds. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

From the aorta there extend vein-like ducts to the head of each of the testicles, and another two from the kidneys; these two from the kidneys are supplied with blood, while the two from the aorta are devoid of it. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Intercostula: those small, vein-like structures between the normal veins, visible on a wing margin but lost toward the disc. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Marmorated: Showing faint, irregular stripes, or traversed by vein-like markings, as in marble (Fig. 146, c). ❋ Unknown (N/A)

From this trachea the pneuma passes to the lung and then, through the _vein-like artery_ ❋ Various (N/A)

In North Carolina and Georgia, the corundum occurs in vein-like bodies at the contact of peridotite with gneisses and schists, and also in part in the peridotite itself. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Colombo say: "The blood is carried by the artery-like vein to the lungs, and being there made thin is brought back thence together with air by the vein-like artery to the left ventricle of the heart." ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

= Gills = sometimes separating readily from the pileus, forked or anastomosing at the base, or connected with vein-like reticulations. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

The = gills = are strongly decurrent, distant, with vein-like elevations near the stem. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

They are broad in the middle, connected by vein-like elevations over the surface, and sometimes wavy and crenate on the edge, the edge of the gills sometimes white. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)