Definition of Pinnular

1. pinnula [adj] - See also: pinnula

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinnular

pinnigrades
pinning
pinnings
pinniped
pinniped mammal
pinnipedes
pinnipedia
pinnipeds
pinnock
pinnocks
pinnoed
pinnothere
pinnotheres
pinnula
pinnulae
pinnular (current term)
pinnulas
pinnulate
pinnulated
pinnule
pinnules
pinny
pinnywinkles
pinochle
pinochles
pinocle
pinocles
pinocyte
pinocytic
pinocytose

Literary usage of Pinnular

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

1. A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1888)
"The axial canal dilates in the enlarged pyriform ossicle above mentioned; and, from the dilatation, branches, which traverse the radial and the pinnular ..."

2. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1893)
"The basal pinnules of these species, however, are not so elongated, nor is the origin of the pinnular nervation the same. The nervation of the first two is ..."

3. Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales by Geological Survey of New South Wales (1905)
"... each pinnule composed typically of three principal segments, which are again divided two or more times; terminations of pinnular segments acute. ..."

4. Flora of the Outlying Carboniferous Basins of Southwestern Missouri by David White (1893)
"The basal pinnules of these species, however, are not so elongated, nor is the origin of the pinnular nervation the same. The nervation of the first two is ..."

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