A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Vena,-ae (s.f.I), abl.sg. vena: vein, q.v. [> L. vena,-ae (s.f.I) = Gk. ochetos, a blood-vessel, a vein; also an artery; a water-course; a vein of metal ore; “a fissure, pore, cavity (in the soil, rocks, etc.); a vein or extended deposit of ore, etc., or the ore extracted from it” (Glare)]; see veining;

- [fungi] arbusculam perfectissime effiguratam offerunt venae gelatinosae repentes (S&A), the repent, gelatinous veins present most perfectly defined little tree.

Venae externae (adj.A): (in fungi) “(of Tuberales) Vittadini’s name (1831) for the white, sterile and aeriferous spaces, often invaded by paraphyses, which arise at the opening (top or bottom) of the fructifications, penetrate the interior between the fertile ‘venae intenae’ and end blindly within” (S&D).

Venae internae (adj.A): (in fungi) “(of Tuberales) Vittadini’s name (1831) for the dark tramal plates which arise in the tissue zone lying beneath the rind, converge toward the top or bottom as the case may be, and bear the hymenial palisade on their surfaces” (S&D).

Venae lymphaticae (adj.A): (in fungi) “dark-colored veins in some fungi, denoting the walls of the sporiferous chambers; same as ‘venae internae’” (S&D).