Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinnulae
Literary usage of Pinnulae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire: Or, A Description of the Strata by John Phillips, Robert Etheridge (1875)
"Frond lanceolate; pinnae frequent; pinnulae short, ovato-acuminate, ... Frond ample;
pinnulae alternate, contracted at the base, thence expanded and ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1869)
"It is therefore probable, as suggested by Dr. White, that these furrows, in at
least a portion of the pinnulae, were provided with receptacles for the ova ..."
3. Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land: Accompanied by Paul Edmund de Strzelecki (1845)
"This appears to have been a very delicate fern: the pinnulae are very slender,
or membranous, and variable in shape according to their position on the frond ..."
4. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"In the Crinoids, a genital strand runs through the arms, branching with them,
and entering into their last ramifications—the pinnulae. ..."
5. Morphology of Invertebrate Types by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (1916)
"The reproductive cells reach the outside through the rupture of the tissues of
the pinnulae in more or less predetermined places. ..."
6. Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions of by Robert Kaye Greville (1828)
"... several times pinnate, pinnae and pinnulae alternate, numerous, all obtuse,
the joints of the pinnae equal in length and breadth, without striae. ..."
7. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1842)
"... in some degree of a monstrous or unnatural character, the rachis being often
dichotomous and irregularly branched, and the pinnulae invariably ban-en. ..."
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