Definition of Bipinnate

1. Adjective. Of a leaf shape; having doubly pinnate leaflets (as ferns).

Similar to: Compound

Definition of Bipinnate

1. a. Twice pinnate.

Definition of Bipinnate

1. Adjective. (botany of a leaf) Pinnate and having leaflet that are themselves pinnate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bipinnate

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Bipinnate

1. Of leaves, twice pinnately divided. Compare: pinnate, tripinnate. (19 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bipinnate

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biphosphammite
biphosphate
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biphosphonate
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biphoton
biphotonic
biphotons
biphyletic
bipinnaria
bipinnate (current term)
bipinnate leaf
bipinnately
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bipkwele
biplanar
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biplane flying fish
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bipod
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Literary usage of Bipinnate

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

1. Flora of the southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"... contracted, bipinnate, very woolly, densely covered with cinnamon-colored sporangia, withering before the sterile fronds are expanded. ..."

2. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"Generic Characters. Branchlets supra-axillary, and often converted into branched spines. Leaves abruptly pinnate; in the same species pinnate, bipinnate, ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Lvs. alternate, abruptly pinnate, often partly bipinnate on the same leaf, or wholly bipinnate, both usually on the same tree : fls. polygamous ; c*lyx ..."

4. Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa in the Collection of the British Museum by George Busk (1852)
"... which appears to attain a height of 4 or 6 inches, is bipinnate (with all the branches on one plane), the branches alternate, and given off with extreme ..."

5. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1868)
"bipinnate foliage ; the latter is much like that of Anthriscus silvestris, Hoffm., whilst the flowers are usually about the size of those of D. ..."

6. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"SHIELD FERN Rather large coarse ferns; in ours the fronds bipinnate and ... Fronds 1—3 dm. long, broadly lanceolate, usually bipinnate; pinnae oblong-ovate, ..."

7. Flora of the southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"... contracted, bipinnate, very woolly, densely covered with cinnamon-colored sporangia, withering before the sterile fronds are expanded. ..."

8. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"Generic Characters. Branchlets supra-axillary, and often converted into branched spines. Leaves abruptly pinnate; in the same species pinnate, bipinnate, ..."

9. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Lvs. alternate, abruptly pinnate, often partly bipinnate on the same leaf, or wholly bipinnate, both usually on the same tree : fls. polygamous ; c*lyx ..."

10. Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa in the Collection of the British Museum by George Busk (1852)
"... which appears to attain a height of 4 or 6 inches, is bipinnate (with all the branches on one plane), the branches alternate, and given off with extreme ..."

11. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1868)
"bipinnate foliage ; the latter is much like that of Anthriscus silvestris, Hoffm., whilst the flowers are usually about the size of those of D. ..."

12. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"SHIELD FERN Rather large coarse ferns; in ours the fronds bipinnate and ... Fronds 1—3 dm. long, broadly lanceolate, usually bipinnate; pinnae oblong-ovate, ..."

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