Third-person singular present tense of devein; removes veins from something.
From the same root as deveining, deveins is the conjugated form used with singular subjects in present tense ('she deveins the shrimp').
The verb 'devein' only became common in English recipes after frozen shrimp became widely available in supermarkets during the 1950s, creating a whole new vocabulary for food preparation!
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