blue vein

  • 1blue vein — /ˈblu veɪn / (say blooh vayn) noun a type of semi soft ripened cheese with blue green veins of Penicillium mould culture throughout the ripened curd …

  • 2Blue cheese — (or bleu cheese) is a general classification of cow s milk, sheep s milk, or goat s milk cheeses that has had Penicillium cultures added so that the final product is spotted or veined throughout with blue, blue gray or blue green mold, and… …

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  • 3vein — noun 1 tube carrying blood in the body ADJECTIVE ▪ blue ▪ A blue vein throbbed in his forehead. ▪ broken (esp. BrE), spider (esp. AmE), thread (esp. BrE), varicose …

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  • 4blue cheese — /ˈblu tʃiz/ (say blooh cheez) noun → blue vein …

  • 5Vein — In the circulatory system, a vein is a blood vessel that carries blood back toward the heart (as opposed to artery, a blood vessel carrying blood away from the heart). The majority of veins in the body carry low oxygen blood from the tissues back …

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  • 6vein — 01. The [veins] in his hands are really thick and easy to see under the skin. 02. It took the nurse a while to find a [vein] big enough to take a blood sample from the old woman. 03. His books treat very serious subjects in a humorous [vein]. 04 …

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  • 7Blue John Cavern — Infobox Cave name = Blue John Cavern photo = Blue John cavern.jpg caption = Entrance to the Blue John cavern location = Castleton, Derbyshire depth = length = coordinates = discovery = geology = Blue John difficulty = number of entrances = 1… …

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  • 8Vein (geology) — A quartz vein, prominent from the surrounding weathered rock In geology, a vein is a distinct sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock. Veins form when mineral constituents carried by an aqueous solution within the rock mass are… …

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  • 9vein — noun /veɪn/ a) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart ...and on a different vein, can we discuss... b) (used in plural veins) The entrails of a shrimp See Also: in the same vein, veined …

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  • 10Blue — This article is about the colour. For other uses, see Blue (disambiguation). Blue …

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