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Definition of Pinnas
1. pinna [n] - See also: pinna
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinnas
Literary usage of Pinnas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1853)
"... the upper pinnas becoming decurrent on the inferior side ; all entire in the
lower half, sharply serrate above, smooth, rigid in texture, ..."
2. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1857)
"mediato between the sterile and fertile condition, (bearing a few fruit-dots on
contracted but still herbaceous and open pinnas,) were gathered at ..."
3. Hortus Jamaicensis, Or, A Botanical Description, (according to the Linnean by John Lunan (1814)
"The pinnas are about an inch in lentil. and liait' as brond; ... pinnas about two.
inches long, and three-quarters of aa inch broad at the ..."
4. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany, a Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1880)
"Native in Key West, Florida ; with lower pinnas as in the last; middle portion
sterile, 2-3-pinnate; pinnas long-pointed; ..."
5. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1878)
"pinnas numerous, narrow, undivided, 3 to 6 in. long pinnas few, narrow, 2 to 4 in.
long ... Segments of the pinnas connected by Frond with several branches. ..."
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