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Vendues
- noun - the public sale of something to the highest bidder
Venires
- noun - (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
Venomed
- adjective - full of malice or hate; "venomed remarks"
Ventner
- noun - United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946)
Venules
- noun - a minute vein continuous with a capillary
Vermeer
- noun - Dutch painter renowned for his use of light (1632-1675)
Vernier
- noun - a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale
- French mathematician who described the vernier scale (1580-1637)
Vestlet
- - Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name.
Vetches
- noun - any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants
Vetiver
- - An East Indian grass (Andropogon muricatus); also, its fragrant roots which are much used for making mats and screens. Also called kuskus, and khuskhus.