pinna
IPA: pˈɪnʌ
noun
- (anatomy) The visible part of the ear that resides outside of the head, the auricle; outer ear excluding the ear canal.
- (botany) A leaflet or primary segment of a pinnate compound leaf.
- (zoology) A feather, wing, fin, or other similar appendage.
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Examples of "pinna" in Sentences
- As an earless seal, it lacks a pinna.
- The pinna apices are finely denticulate.
- It is the pinna that is visibly shrunken.
- The purpose of the pinna is to collect sound.
- The function of the pinna is to collect sound.
- In people, the pinna is often called the auricle.
- In the pinna also is found the so-called pinna-guard.
- The external ear is also called the auricula or pinna.
- The pinnae are round and broad and the muzzle is blunt.
- “And after all, didn’t somebody just make up the word pinna, too?”
- In ferns it is also the part of the axis that the pinnae are attached.
- Specifically, there are those earrings that are worn at the pinna on the top.
- The transverse muscle of auricle is placed on the cranial surface of the pinna.
- Normally, the outer ear, known as the pinna, collects sound waves and directs them into the ear canal, which carries the sound waves to the eardrum.
- The external ear consists of an expanded portion known as the pinna or _auricle_, and of a passage, the auditory canal or _meatus_, leading inwards from it.
- "The pinna is a variety of shell-fish not unlike the mussel; it fastens itself to the rocks and from between its shells gives out threads something like those of the spider or silkworm.
- By contrast, the Atomic Floyd HiDefjaxes are shaped so they nestle snugly into your ears, and stay there: they've got a curve in the shape of the earpieces that wedges them in your pinna.
- With a graceful gesture she swept the tresses framing her right cheek behind a delicate ear, revealing that the pinna contained two openings to the auditory canal, one in the center, and a smaller one near the upper edge.