Nervose

Quick meaning: Nervose is an adjective meaning (botany) nerved; having prominent veins.

Meaning

(botany) nerved; having prominent veins.

More Meanings

1. For or pertaining to the nerves.

Example Sentences

I ordered an injection to be thrown up three or four times a day, and she took a nervose mixture with tinct. valer. and castor, which method fhe continued till the 22d of December.

It belongs only to a higher grade of perfection, or to a nervose condition of the digestive process, to perceive the rationale of the decomposition, or the spiritual conflict, which prevails between the matters, when they are about to separate.

In 1859 Moreau laid down the principle, based upon a number of rather doubtful examples, that genius was essentially a nervose, or nerve, affection, his contention being that originality of thought and quickness or preponderance of intellectual faculties were originally much the same thing as madness and idiocy.

A foot or more high, leaves oblong-lanceolate, the upper usually ovate-lanceolate and sessile by a nervose veined base; pedicels shorter than the acute lobes of the calyx ; the lower lip or the corolla violet or rose-purple and the upper paler to nearly white; the saccate throat very oblique to the true tube, fully as broad as long; gland short.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nervate, nervous, neurose, nervish, subnervose, nerved.

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