💪 With many veins 🪨 With streaks

veiny

1 4.3

Having thin lines running through stone like marble or wood

adjective
/ˈveɪni/

: vetado

The leaf had veiny markings that made it stand out from the others.

Examples

- Oh, it's so veiny.

Waiting... (2005)
Not you're not as veiny, but when I'm dehydrated, though.
I registered their presence as dire examples: their exhausted cars, the castoff armchairs they took from my parents' house, their splayed, veiny legs.

Fiction book (2000)
The artist used veiny patterns in her painting to create a sense of depth.
As the sun set, the sky turned a beautiful veiny orange and purple.

Synonyms

streaky

vsveiny

4 4.4

Having thin lines and uneven patches of different color or texture, like marks on bacon and skin

refers to thin contrasting lines rather than general uneven color or texture

veined

vsveiny

4 4.4

Having lines and marks like those on a leaf or marble

is used more generally for thin lines that contrast in color or material

streaked

vsveiny

2 2.7

Having long thin lines or marks on a surface

emphasizes resemblance to natural branching rather than random lines or stains

veinlike

vsveiny

1 6.8

A pattern of thin lines like those on a leaf or in marble

focuses on thin streaks that especially contrast in color or material

venose

vsveiny

Specialized

9.9

Having thin lines like the veins in leaves or insect wings

is the general term for thin contrasting lines not limited to those domains

How Veined

marbled

7 4.4

veiny

1 4.3

veined

4 4.4

streaked

2 2.7

unmarked

45 4.3

Surface Forms

veiny positive

Morphology

veiny = vein (transparent) = vein + y

Formed by adding the adjectival suffix '-y' to 'vein' to indicate the presence of vein-like lines or markings.

Etymology

The word veiny comes from vein, which also means 'a thin line or streak', and the ending -y, meaning 'full of'. So we call marble, wood, or stone 'veiny' when they have many thin line patterns, like the veins you see in the body.