veinous

From vein +‎ -ous.

• IPA^(key): /ˈveɪ.nəs/
• Rhymes: -eɪnəs

veinous (comparative more veinous, superlative most veinous)

1. Having prominent veins.

   Synonym: veiny

   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 26, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     The excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous.

2. From, or related to veins.

   Synonyms: venous, venal

   I do a veinous draw once a month at the doctor's lab.

   • 2004, Henry Heymering, American Farriers' Journal‎^[1], volume 30:

     Farriers should have an awareness of blood flow and veinous arterial and capillary blood flow in the foot and how this flow changes under load and when it's unloaded.

• envious, niveous