Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
pinnate .
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- adjective
pinnate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each side of a common axis
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Examples
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1 The Illinois species is that known as pinnated grouse (Tympanuchus americanus).
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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Trees with that kind of pinnated foliage seem to be later than others.
Rural Hours 1887
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HIRTELLA of Miquel, a hairy shrub with pinnated leaves; EVOLVULUS
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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“Mpávo,” or bark slabs, are fitted in between the double posts; when coolness is required, their place is taken by mats woven with the pinnated leaves of sundry palms.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Also a new DODONOEA, with very narrow, linear, pinnated leaves.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Persia or the North of China, and the long pinnated leaves seem to mark its Oriental origin; but it has taken very kindly to its European home.
Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church
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There are few wooers in bird-life so ardent as the pinnated grouse, yet he that joins in the mating ceremony of booming morning after morning on some chosen booming-ground or fiercely contests with other males for the favor of the chosen one deserts her soon after the winning.
Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State Various
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Laws have been made for the protection of the pinnated grouse, or prairie chicken, and others of their tribe.
Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State Various
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They rise to the top of the tallest trees and fall again so as to resemble a great length of cable, adorned, however, with the most beautiful leaves, pinnated or terminating in graceful tendrils.
Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday
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Perhaps they were "Prairie hens" (pinnated grouse).
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various
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