Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Pinnately compound without a terminal leaflet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, equally pinnate; abruptly pinnate. See cut f under leaf. Compare
imparipinnate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany
pinnate with apair ofleaflets at theapex
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a leaf shape) pinnate with a pair of leaflets at the apex
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin pār, par-, equal, a pair + pinnate.]
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