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Definition of Pinnatifid
1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) cleft nearly to the midrib in broad divisions not separated into distinct leaflets.
Definition of Pinnatifid
1. a. Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.
Definition of Pinnatifid
1. Adjective. (botany of leaves) Having lobes with incisions that extend less than half-way toward the midrib. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pinnatifid
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Pinnatifid
1. Cut deeply into lobes that are spaced out along the main stem (of the leaf). Compare: palmatifid. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinnatifid
Literary usage of Pinnatifid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... dentate, or pinnatifid: fls. in the type deep rose, with the large middle segm.
of the upper up orange except at the tip; ..."
2. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"When the segments of a pinnatifid leaf are pointed and curved backward, ...
When the terminal segment of a pinnatifid leaf is orbicular in figure and larger ..."
3. Manual of the Flora of Jackson County, Missouri by Kenneth Kent Mackenzie, Benjamin Franklin Bush (1902)
"2°-6° high: leaves deeply pinnatifid, dentate : pods narrowly linear, 6'' long,
smooth, on pedicels 2"-4" long, appressed in fruit.—Abundant in waste places ..."
4. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"... for the most part pinnatifid. or the lowest pinnately parted: flowers Leaves
coarsely toothed or some pinnatifid or entire: flowers white or yellowish. ..."
5. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"Low and stemless perennials, with toothed or pinnatifid ... Leaves more or less
pinnatifid ; scape branched ; peduncles thickened at the summit and ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... with soft, deciduous hair-like scales ; segments coarsely serrate or pinnatifid,
on spore- bearing Ivs. N. Zealand. ..."
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