nervation
(nɜːˈveɪʃən)
[ad. L. type *nervātiōn-em, f. *nervāre: see prec. Cf. F. nervation.]
† 1. (See quot.) Obs. rare—0.
| 1721 Bailey, Nervation, a joining together, a strengthening as it were by Sinews. |
2. Bot. The disposition of the fibro-vascular bundles in the blades of leaves, etc.
| 1849 Balfour Man. Bot. §141 The distribution of the veins has been called Venation, sometimes Nervation. 1854 Hooker Himal. Jrnls. I. i. 8 The outlines of the fronds of ferns and their nervation. 1884 Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 168 Those vessels..which traverse the nervation of the leaf. |
3. The action of the nerves.
| 1851 J. W. Haddock (title) Somnolism and Psycheism; or, the Science of the Soul, and the Phenomena of Nervation, as Revealed in Vital Magnetism. |
So ˈnervature.
| 1866 Duke of Argyll Reign of Law iv. 195 In the mantis the tracery..is drawn in imitation of the nervature of a leaf. |