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pinnate

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pinnate, pinnated
1. like a feather in appearance
2. (of compound leaves) having the leaflets growing opposite each other in pairs on either side of the stem
pinnate [′pi‚nāt]
(botany)
Having parts arranged like a feather, branching from a central axis.
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We occasionally though rarely see something of this kind in plants: thus the embryonic leaves of the ulex or furze, and the first leaves of the phyllodineous acaceas, are pinnate or divided like the ordinary leaves of the leguminosae.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
Its broad pinnate tropical leaf was pleasant though strange to look on.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
 
 
 
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