Definition of Pinnulate

1. a. Having each pinna subdivided; -- said of a leaf, or of its pinnæ.

Definition of Pinnulate

1. Adjective. (botany) Having each pinna subdivided; said of a leaf, or of its pinnae. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pinnulate

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Pinnulate

1. Having each pinna subdivided; said of a leaf, or of its pinnae. See: Pinnule. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinnulate

pinnings
pinniped
pinniped mammal
pinnipedes
pinnipedia
pinnipeds
pinnock
pinnocks
pinnoed
pinnothere
pinnotheres
pinnula
pinnulae
pinnular
pinnulas
pinnulate (current term)
pinnulated
pinnule
pinnules
pinny
pinnywinkles
pinochle
pinochles
pinocle
pinocles
pinocyte
pinocytic
pinocytose
pinocytosed
pinocytoses

Literary usage of Pinnulate

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

1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1905)
"Mr. Springer also shows that the arms are pinnulate, a fact mentioned by Billings in obscure fashion but ... The pinnulate stage of arm-structure found in ..."

2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"Koenen, 1887-95), Trias, Middle Europe, has a round or sub-pentagonal stem without cirri, pinnulate arms forking once, 2 IBr, which are united by several ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"... often fusing with IBB, which are frequently atrophied in the adult. Arms non-pinnulate (Grade ... or pinnulate (Grade Pinnata I, but always uniserial. ..."

4. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1898)
"FA Bather proposes that for all crinoids, pinnulate or non-pinnulate, in connection with the successive series of ..."

5. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1858)
"... "frond pinnated, pinnae ones pinnulate, segments oblong linear obtuse entire equal at the base, veins forked the basal ones arising from the axil of the ..."

6. North American Index Fossils by Amadeus William Grabau, Hervey Woodburn Shimer (1910)
"Arms ten, long and pinnulate, composed of very short, almost circular, joints. ... Costals rarely more than two, none of them pinnulate. ..."

7. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge by Smithsonian Institution (1853)
"... elongate, awl-shaped, alternate, the upper ones pinnulate near the tips ; internodes of the branches rarely shorter than their breadth, often once and ..."

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