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From vein +‎ -al.

Adjective

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veinal (not comparable)

  1. (now chiefly botany) Pertaining to or contained in veins, especially the veins of a leaf. [from 15th c.]
    • 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 56:
      He supplemented the already-satisfying mixture with his secret touch […], which was to employ a sprinkling of Cobalt Blue, this simulating the depleted veinal blood that circulated just below the human epidermis.

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