elegantly-veined

Updated: July 17, 2025

These thickets are formed chiefly of bamboos, whose slender foliage and curving stems arrange themselves in elegant, feathery bowers; but other social plants slender green climbers with tendrils so eager in aspiring to grasp the higher boughs that they seem to be endowed almost with animal energy, and certain low trees having large elegantly-veined leaves contribute also to the jungly masses.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons