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vein
What does vein mean?
vein (noun): a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce vein?
/veɪn/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does vein come from?
From Middle English veine, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “vein” mean?
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a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart
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