a. Geol. [f. L. type *vēnigena.] Of rock-masses: Bearing or containing veins of metal or quartz.
1817. Blackw. Mag., I. 421. A series of specimens of the diamond imbedded in a venigenous mass.
1833–4. J. Phillips, Geol., in Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VI. 762/2. The intricate character of the venigenous masses of Mousehole.
