pinnate
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- adjective
- /ˈpɪneɪt/
- Specialized
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pinnado
- I admired the pinnate leaf structure of the fern as it spread across the forest floor.
- pinnate leaf
- pinnate foliage
Examples
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In the garden, the pinnate leaflets of the tropical plant caught everyone's attention.
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Leaves are four to five pinnate, but variable, as is the rest of the plant in the dimensions of all its parts, the compoundness of its leaves, the length of the peduncles, the number of pedicels in the umbellules, and the dimensions of the fruits.
Academic text (1998) -
The plant's pinnate leaves gave it a delicate, feathery appearance.
Synonyms
Divided into many small leaves arranged along both sides of a central stem like a feather
Leaves that have many small parts arranged on both sides of a central stem
Having leaves made of many small parts arranged along a central stem
Compounds
- Specialized
A leaf with leaflets along a central stalk that ends with a pair at the tip
- Specialized
Having leaflets in pairs along the main stem and ending with a pair at the tip
- Specialized
A leaf with leaflets in pairs along the stem and no single leaflet at the tip
- Specialized
A leaf with pairs of leaflets along a central stem and no single leaflet at the tip
- Specialized
A leaf made of several small leaf parts with a single part at the tip giving an odd number
- Specialized
Leaves that have many small parts arranged on both sides of a central stem
How Divided
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word pinnate comes from the Latin pinna, which means 'feather' and is the same root as pen (once a feather used for writing). So a pinnate leaf has small leaflets on each side of a central stem, like a feather, which is why we call it 'feather-like'.