"nerveway" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: nerveways [plural]
Etymology: From nerve + way. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|nerve|way}} nerve + way Head templates: {{en-noun}} nerveway (plural nerveways)
  1. An axon.
    Sense id: en-nerveway-en-noun-0RNIeO-S Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2005, Jack Elliott Myers, Roger Weingarten, New American Poets, page 128:",
          "text": "Even though it was something the painter didn't think about (with words) she recalled the metallic flavor of minerals (how the stars must taste) scratching at the root of her tongue, which led to nerveways of the bones where the imprint of all symbols surfaces to the fingers, where spirits ride horses through the colors needed to form any coherent universe.",
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          "ref": "2012, Daniel Pearlman, And Baby Makes Five:",
          "text": "His lips moved, and he looked at her as if the time inside his head had slowed to a crawl, as if the nerveways in his brain were clogged with too much information.",
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