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Vinous vs Veinous - What's the difference?

vinous | veinous |

As adjectives the difference between vinous and veinous

is that vinous is pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine while veinous is having veins.

vinous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine.
  • *2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 254:
  • *:It was a moment of bathos and anticlimax; a poor sequel to my smoke-ringed, vinous reverie on American grandeur the previous night.
  • Tending to drink wine excessively.

    • Derived terms

    * vinous liquor * vinously

    Related terms

    * vinosity

    See also

    * ----

    veinous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having veins.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • The excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous .

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