pinnate
IPA: pˈɪnɪt
adjective
- Resembling a feather.
- (botany) Having two rows of branches, lobes, leaflets, or veins arranged on each side of a common axis
- (zoology) Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck.
- (zoology) Having wings or fins.
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Examples of "pinnate" in Sentences
- They can be pinnate or bipinnate.
- The leaves are pinnate, not palmate.
- The stems are pinnately lobed and spiny.
- Leaves pinnate and alternate on the stem.
- Pinnate veins are indistinct and reticulate.
- Leaves are pinnate and alternate on the stem.
- Leaves are pinnate or bipinnate, with leaflets.
- Leaves are not the only things that are pinnate.
- The fronds are simply pinnate to pinnate pinnatifid.
- Its broad pinnate tropical leaf was pleasant though strange to look on.
- The pinnate leaves with opposite leaflets giving a billowing effect in the wind.
- I want to stop smelling the basal stipules, pinnate leaflets, hypanthium and achenes.
- "That kind of veining is called pinnate veining from a Latin word that means 'feather,'" explained Helen.
- I was pleasantly surprised to see this tree species - the Mimosa, known by it's fluffy light pink flowers and pinnate shaped leaves.
- The leaves are 10-25 cm long, pinnate, with 5-9 leaflets, each leaflet up to 8 cm long, with a serrated margin; both the stem and leaves are densely glandular-hairy.
- Like a tiny pink lupin with vetch-like pinnate leaves, this pea relative is said to have been introduced from France, where it was called "St Foyn" in the 17th century.
- The sago tree is a palm, thicker and larger than the cocoa-nut tree, although rarely so tall, and having immense pinnate spiny leaves, which completely cover the trunk till it is many years old.
- Each leaf is full five yards in length, and of the kind called pinnate -- that is divided into numerous leaflets, each of which is itself more than a foot and a half long, shaped like the blade of a rapier.
- The apparently compound ( "pinnate" or feather-shaped) leaves of many palms are not strictly compound; that is, they do not arise from the branching of an originally single leaf, but are really broad, undivided leaves, which are closely folded like a fan in the bud, and tear apart along the folds as the leaf opens.