venosus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

vēnōsus, a, um, adj. [vena], full of veins, veiny, venous.

I Lit.: renes, Cels. 4, 1: folia, Plin. 18, 7, 10, § 58: radices, id. 25, 13, 100, § 157: smaragdi, id. 37, 5, 18, § 72.— Comp. : intybum, Plin. 20, 8, 29, § 73. —*

II Trop.: liber Acci, dry , meagre , Pers. 1, 76.