Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having feathers or wings.
  • adjective Having elongate, bilaterally symmetrical valves. Used of diatoms.
  • adjective Resembling a feather. Used especially of a muscle whose fibers extend obliquely from a tendon.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In ornithology, winged; feathered: usually in composition, as longipennate, brevipennate, etc. Also rarely penned.
  • In botany, same as pinnate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Winged; plume-shaped.
  • adjective (Bot.) Same as Pinnate.

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  • adjective sciences Having a feather-like shape

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having feathered wings

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin pennātus, from penna, feather; see pet- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin pennatus

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Examples

  • Hi Jeff i'm sure you are right, in fact Munier talks of 4 "pennate" (1 pennata is a full downstroke and upstroke) for a quarter note

    Mandolin Cafe News 2009

  • This is seen specially in the hamstrings, which from the great distance of their origin, and the purely longitudinal direction of their fibres, retract to a very great extent, much more than the anterior muscles can do from the pennate direction of their fibres, and the manner in which they are mutually bound down to each other and to the bone.

    A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

  • The pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum also responds rapidly to specific environmental stimuli such as mechanical stress and osmotic shock with increases in cytoplasmic Ca.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alison R. Taylor 2009

  • Last year, Siver discovered a new genus of diatom (he has discovered 60 new species over the past 20 years) that sheds light on the origin of the "raphe" -- a slit that appears along the long axis of pennate diatoms.

    TreeHugger 2009

  • Dr. Mantell concludes that the islands of New Zealand were densely peopled at a period geologically recent, though historically remote, by tribes of gigantic brevi-pennate birds allied to the ostrich tribe, all, or almost all, of species and genera now extinct; and that, subsequently to the formation of the most ancient ornithic deposit, the sea-coast has been elevated from fifty to one hundred feet above its original level; hence the terraces of shingle and loam which now skirt the maritime districts.

    COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • "… We show that a change in timing of spring plankton events in warm years led to the paradox of lower mean water temperatures during the growth period, favouring cold-adapted diatoms over cyanobacteria, and within the diatoms, some cold-adapted centric forms over pennate forms.

    RealClimate 2009

  • "… We show that a change in timing of spring plankton events in warm years led to the paradox of lower mean water temperatures during the growth period, favouring cold-adapted diatoms over cyanobacteria, and within the diatoms, some cold-adapted centric forms over pennate forms.

    RealClimate 2009

  • "… We show that a change in timing of spring plankton events in warm years led to the paradox of lower mean water temperatures during the growth period, favouring cold-adapted diatoms over cyanobacteria, and within the diatoms, some cold-adapted centric forms over pennate forms.

    RealClimate 2009

  • "… We show that a change in timing of spring plankton events in warm years led to the paradox of lower mean water temperatures during the growth period, favouring cold-adapted diatoms over cyanobacteria, and within the diatoms, some cold-adapted centric forms over pennate forms.

    RealClimate 2009

  • "… We show that a change in timing of spring plankton events in warm years led to the paradox of lower mean water temperatures during the growth period, favouring cold-adapted diatoms over cyanobacteria, and within the diatoms, some cold-adapted centric forms over pennate forms.

    RealClimate 2009

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