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.
- The pinnate leaves with opposite leaflets giving a billowing effect in the wind.
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