venturi

Definition

A venturi tube.

Etymology

After Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist.

Example Sentences

• "He’s at the age where mucus is a daily companion, a culture of mucus among the old, mucus in a thousand manifestations, appearing in clots by total surprise on a friend’s tablecloth, rimming his breath-passages at night in hard venturi, enough to darken the outlines of dreams and send him awake, pleading."