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pinnate
[ pin-eyt, -it ]
adjective
- (of a leaf ) having leaflets or primary divisions arranged on each side of a common stalk:
the pinnate leaves of a palm tree.
- resembling a feather, as in construction or arrangement; having parts arranged on each side of a common axis:
This type of sea cucumber has a mouth surrounded by up to 25 pinnate tentacles.
pinnate
/ ˈpɪneɪt; ˈpɪnɪt /
adjective
- like a feather in appearance
- (of compound leaves) having the leaflets growing opposite each other in pairs on either side of the stem
pinnate
/ ĭ′′ /
- Having parts or divisions arranged on each side of a common axis in the manner of a feather. Ash, hickory, and walnut trees have pinnate leaves.
Derived Forms
- ˈ辱ԲԲٱ, adverb
- 辱ˈԲپDz, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- 辱nٱ· 辱n·· adverb
- ܱt·辱nٱ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of pinnate1
Example Sentences
“These are all cycads,” the composer Tobias Picker said, gesturing at a low canopy of fanned-out, pinnate leaves near the entrance of the conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden.
The pronouncer told her it meant a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian trees having pinnate leaves with imbricated petals.
Their once-luxuriant crowns had thinned to an eerie transparency; instead of a shifting canopy of pinnate leaves, bare twigs showed stark against the sky.
A Victorian field guide, for example, describes Agrimonia in rather uncompromising terms: "Herbs with stipulate, pinnate, serrate leaves and terminal bracteate spine-like racemes of small yellow flowers."
Primary portion and branches thick, the branches interruptedly pinnate with short obtuse divisions.—On decayed wood and moss in swamps, N. J.
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