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Having but one pair of leaflets; -- said of a pinnate leaf.

Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing. Vaginant leaf (Bot.), a leaf investing the stem or branch by its base, which has the form of a tube.

h, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf.

One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.

Having fibrovascular threads extending throughout the lamina; as, a veined leaf.

Having no veins; as, a veinless leaf.

ing the surface covered with a fine and dense silky pubescence; velvety; as, a velutinous leaf.

A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense. Veneer moth (Zoöl.), any moth of the genus Chilo; -- so called because the mottled colors resemble those of veneer…

Marked with veins; veined; as, a venous leaf. Venous leaf (Bot.), a leaf having vessels branching, or variously divided, over its surface. -- Venous hum (Med.), a humming sound, or bruit, heard during auscultation of the veins of the neck in anæmia. -- Venous pulse (Physiol.), the pulse, or rhythmic contraction, some…

valued for food. Venus's basin (Bot.), the wild teasel; - - so called because the connate leaf bases form a kind of receptacle for water, which was formerly gathered for use in the toilet. Also called Venus's bath. -- Venus's basket (Zoöl.), an elegant, cornucopia-shaped, hexactinellid sponge (Euplectella speciosa) na…

The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation.

Minutely verrucose; as, a verruculose leaf or stalk.

Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer.

A small bladderlike body in the substance of vegetable, or upon the surface of a leaf. (b) (Med.)

d with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate; as, vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf.

Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a vigesimo-quarto form, book, leaf, size, etc.

at are injurious to the grapevine. -- Vine hopper (Zoöl.), any one of several species of leaf hoppers which suck the sap of the grapevine, especially Erythroneura vitis. See Illust. of Grape hopper, under Grape. -- Vine inchworm (Zoöl.), the larva of any species of geometrid moths which feed on the leaves of the grap…

s in reference to matters inquired of, to ascertain his competency to give evidence. Greenleaf. Ld. Abinger.

Turn, that is, turn over the leaf. Volti subito Etym: [It.] (Mus.), turn over quickly.

g crane, a kind of traveling crane. See under Crane. -- Walking fern. (Bot.) See Walking leaf, below. -- Walking fish (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, some of which, as O. marulius, become over four feet long. They have a special cavity over the gills lined with a mem…