Definition of "blue-veined" [blue•-veined]

• Having blue veins or blue streaks. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "I looked at her narrow wrists: blue-veined, delicate, and unmarred."
• "White-skinned, blue-veined, as delicate as porcelain, Lydia never complained that she could never fly or even take a flight of stairs."
• "She falls asleep with her hands crossed over her chest, closes blue-veined, crinkled-paper eyelids and drifts off just like that, as if her soul is already gone, her body continuing on autopilot."