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Definition of Pennate
1. Adjective. Having feathered wings.
Definition of Pennate
1. a. Winged; plume- shaped.
Definition of Pennate
1. Adjective. (sciences) Having a feather-like shape ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pennate
1. having wings or feathers [adj]
Medical Definition of Pennate
1. Feathered; resembling a feather. Synonym: penniform. Origin: L. Pennatus, fr. Penna, feather (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pennate
Literary usage of Pennate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theory and Analysis of Ornament Applied to the Work of Elementary and by François Louis Schauermann (1892)
"CHAPTER V. pennate DISPOSITIONS. 157. These are directed by proportion to a
headline, -which can be straight, curved or turned. Composing forms of this kind ..."
2. Catalogue of the Mollusca in the Collection of the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1849)
"StS pennate. a. Shell as long as Bach. Fin posterior, dorsal, rhombic. 1. ...
Shell pennate, edges thin. 2. LOLIGO. Cups of sessile arms in two rows; ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"Anterior pennate lobule. 2. Posterior pennate lobule. 3. Flocculus, paraflocculus.
4. ... Second lobule of the middle lobe and anterior pennate lobule. 10. ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"1. Anterior pennate lobule. 2. Posterior pennate ... Second lobule of the middle
lobe and anterior pennate lobule. 10. Three folia of third lobule of middle ..."
5. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1900)
"These three species all have small pennate setie mixed with the ... but iu C.
torquata the pennate setie are very small, slender and fragile, ..."
6. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1875)
"M. Marion says they differ completely from the longitudinal fibres (in the absence
of the pennate arrangement), but he can only refer to the respective ..."
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