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- verb to spin or girate, as the
pern of a spinning-wheel
Etymologies
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Examples
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Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, which is some sort of helix thing, like DNA, or the serpent in the Garden of Eden
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W.A. frondibus pinnatis, pinnis lanceolatis, su - perne simpliciter serratis, inferhe subduplica - to-serratis, basi superiore truncatis, inferiore abscisso - cuneatis, rachi marginata.
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A. frondibus pinnatis, pinnis oppositis trapeziis acutis, sterilihiis incisis, - unima mafori, infi - mis subhastatis reflexis, linea Kiuctificante su - perne et antice continua.
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W. 'D. frondibus pinnatis, pinnulis dimidiatjs, su - perne dentatis.
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LICHEN pulmonarius, crafliK, fii - perne ecinero plumbeos, corofus, ac filamcncofiis» inferne albus ec villonis, 'tecepcacnlis floruni ex rubro fcrrugineis. mich.
Spicilegium florae Goettingensis: plantas inprimis cryptogamicas Hercyniae ... 1778
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At foU supra difeo eonvexa, magis oHfcure virid* Pedunc, fu "perne minus incraffau.
Summa plantarum 1791
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