Definition of Abruptly-pinnate

1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) pinnate with a pair of leaflets at the apex.

Exact synonyms: Even-pinnate, Paripinnate
Similar to: Compound

Definition of Abruptly-pinnate

1. Adjective. (botany) pinnate with a pair of leaflets at the apex ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Abruptly-pinnate

abrotanums
abrotine
abrotines
abrupt
abrupt cessation
abrupted
abrupter
abruptest
abrupting
abruptio placentae
abruptio placentarum
abruption
abruptiones placentarum
abruptions
abruptly
abruptly-pinnate (current term)
abruptly-pinnate leaf
abruptness
abruptnesses
abrupts
abs
abs-
absalonism
absalonisms
abscess
abscess root
abscess scan
abscessed
abscessed tooth
abscesses

Literary usage of Abruptly-pinnate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Trees of the Northern United States: Their Study, Description and by Austin Craig Apgar (1892)
"Leaves once to twice abruptly pinnate; large tree with slender- tipped branches, ... Leaves twice abruptly pinnate; leaflets over 400 in number, ..."

2. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"Leaves abruptly pinnate; in the same species pinnate, bipinnate, or, rarely, by the coalition of the leaflets, almost simple. Flowers greenish, in spikes. ..."

3. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"The first leaf is abruptly pinnate, with numerous pairs of unequal-sided leaflets. ... The first leaf is also abruptly pinnate in A. dealbata (fig. ..."

4. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"Leaves abruptly pinnate, terminated by a tendril or bristle : stamens ... Leaves simply and abruptly pinnate. Anthers either 10 and unequal, or some of the ..."

5. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"Puri-pinnate, or Abruptly Pinnate, destitute of a terminal leaflet or of any thing ... 204. Pinnate with a tendril. 205. Abruptly pinnate leaf of a Cassia. ..."

6. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"... Impari-pinnate - - - - AMO'RPHA Abruptly pinnate, leaflets mucronate ... stipules small - C'OLU'TEA Abruptly pinnate, and bipinnate, ..."

7. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1901)
"126 is evenly or abruptly pinnate, as in the Honey Locust. 182. Palmate (also named digitate) leaves are those in which the leaflets are all borne on the ..."

8. Forest flora of British Burma by Sulpice Kurz (1877)
"Unarmed trees, with abruptly pinnate leaves. Stipules small, deciduous. Flowers racemose, forming short lateral and terminal panicles. 1. ..."

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