rare. [f. VEIN sb. Cf. VENULE.] A small vein or veinlet.
Recent Dicts. also give veinule ‘a minute vein, a venule,’ as a term of Bot. and Geol. (perh. after F. veinule).
1668. Culpepper & Cole, Barthol. Anat., II. vi. 105. There is plenty of blood … running back from the remotest Veinulets or smallest branches of the Veins.
1846–50. A. Wood, Class-bk. Bot., 85. The secondary branches, or those sent off from the veinlets, are the veinulets.
