Pinnate Definition

pĭnāt
adjective
Resembling a feather.
Webster's New World
With leaflets on each side of a common axis in a featherlike arrangement.
Webster's New World
With a pattern of leaf veins resembling the structure of a feather.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Pinnate

  • Latin pinnātus feathered from pinna feather pet- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin pinnātus (“feathered"), from pinna (“feather")

    From Wiktionary

Pinnate Sentence Examples

  • Its broad pinnate tropical leaf was pleasant though strange to look on.

  • P. phegopteris (beechfern) is a graceful species with a black, slender root-stock, from which the pinnate fronds rise on long stalks, generally about 12 in.

  • When the pinnate leaf of a Mimosa pudica, the so-called sensitive plant, is pinched or struck, the leaf droops rapidly and the leaflets become approximated together, so that their upper surfaces are in contact.

  • In these plants the laminae or blades of the leaves are pinnate or bipinnate and are produced at the FIG.

  • In Lathyrus Aphaca and some other plants the true pinnate leaves are abortive, the petiole forms a tendril, and the stipules alone are developed, perform ing the office of leaves.

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Words Starting With

PPIPIN

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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