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bipinnate

[ bahy-pin-eyt ]

adjective

Botany.
  1. pinnate, as a leaf, with the divisions also pinnate.


bipinnate

/ ɪˈɪˌɪ /

adjective

  1. (of pinnate leaves) having the leaflets themselves divided into smaller leaflets
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

bipinnate

/ ī-ĭ /

  1. Relating to compound leaves that grow opposite each other on a larger stem; twice-compound or twice-pinnate. Bipinnate leaves have a feathery appearance. The acacia, coffeetree, and silktree have bipinnate leaves.
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ辱ˌԲٱ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·辱nٱ· adverb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of bipinnate1

From the New Latin word 辱Բٳܲ, dating back to 1785–95; bi- 1, pinnate
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“There were two options: You move the house, or the tree dies,” says Duprat, 69, on a temperate afternoon this past August, standing beneath its delicate bipinnate leaves.

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Pod flat, oblong, often falcate, few–several-seeded.—Low perennial herbs, or woody at base, punctate with black glands, with bipinnate leaves, and naked racemes of yellow flowers opposite the leaves or terminal.

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Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc.

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For example, while the clustered leaves of the Honey-Locust are simply pinnate, that is, once pinnate, those on new shoots are bipinnate, or twice pinnate, as in Fig.

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The plant produces a slender, erect, hollow stem rising 1 to 2 ft. in height, with bipinnate leaves and small flowers in pink or whitish umbels.

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