Definition of Pinnie

1. short for pinafore [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinnie

pinnated
pinnately
pinnatifid
pinnatilobate
pinnation
pinnations
pinnatipartite
pinnatiped
pinnatipeds
pinnatisect
pinned
pinner
pinners
pinnet
pinnets
pinnie (current term)
pinnies
pinniform
pinnigrada
pinnigrade
pinnigrades
pinning
pinnings
pinniped
pinniped mammal
pinnipedes
pinnipedia
pinnipeds
pinnock
pinnocks

Literary usage of Pinnie

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

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"Lvs. elliptic- lanceolate, l-2'í ft. long, 2-6 in. wide, cut to the rachis into horizontal entire or toothed pinnie, the lower ones gradually reduced to ..."

2. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "First Lessons in by Asa Gray (1880)
"Native in Key West, Florida ; with lower pinnie as in the last; middle portion sterile, 2-3-pinnate; pinnie long-pointed; divisions obovate-wedge-shaped, ..."

3. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"... fertile much contracted, brown, with the pinnie revolute into a necklace form, enclosing the sori, which are otherwise destitute of an indusium. 8. ..."

4. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"Fronds slender, pinnie deeply cordate at the base, palmately 4-7-lobed, the lobes oblong, obtuso, entire ; the upper pinnie ..."

5. Our Young Folks by John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton (1871)
"He used to take a carriage every pleasant day and drive about the neighborhood with Alida by his side and pinnie in her kp. Only Finnic would not He still ..."

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