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Definition of Pinnate
1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each side of a common axis.
Definition of Pinnate
1. a. Consisting of several leaflets, or separate portions, arranged on each side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush, a hickory, or an ash. See Abruptly pinnate, and Illust., under Abruptly.
Definition of Pinnate
1. Adjective. Resembling a feather. ¹
2. Adjective. (botany) Having two rows of branches, lobes, leaflets, or veins arranged on each side of a common axis ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pinnate
1. resembling a feather [adj]
Medical Definition of Pinnate
1. Divided into pinnae, once-compound. Compare: bipinnate, tripinnate. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinnate
Literary usage of Pinnate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"is mentioned the case of .some horse-chestnut leaves which had assumed more or
less of a pinnate character; and this season the writer has been fortunate ..."
2. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"Puri-pinnate, or Abruptly pinnate, destitute of a terminal leaflet or of any ...
pinnate denotes merely a striking inequality of size among the leaflets ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"B. Forms with once-pinnate foliage. exaltata: wild species, trop- Harrisi. ...
Forms with thrice-pinnate foliage (sometimes producing H-pinnate forms'). ..."
4. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"Leaves abruptly pinnate, fix or feven inches long ; leaflets alternate, obliquely
oval, ... Leaves alternate, abruptly pinnate, about a foot long ; leaflets ..."
5. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... 1 to 5 inches lung, nearly black, polished and very narrowly herbaceous-margined,
as is the rhachis, linear, rather rigid, evergreen, pinnate ..."
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