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- noun Plural form of
pinna .
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Examples
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I confess, though the possibility of the pearl increasing in size and loveliness was obvious, that the fact that pinnas are subject to ills, chances, and mishaps, was also recognised.
Tropic Days 2003
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Reef, pinnas of at least two species are among the producing agents, which, covering a wide range, seem to meet in two distinct genera, far apart in appearance and habit.
Tropic Days 2003
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The eighth a pinnas that had been in the former voiage called the Pidgeon, now the Ouerijssel, of the burden of fifty tuns.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The seuenth a pinnas called Frisland, of burden about seuenty tuns.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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After this, we the Admiral Mauritius, the Hollandia, and the pinnas
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Genoa, that were come from Constantinople: the mariners of which greate shippes, when they sawe the litle barque, they closed vp the waye, that the pinnas could not goe out.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Herculeosque uelint semper numerare labores miratumque rudis se tollere Terea pinnas post epulas, Philomela, tuas; sunt ardua mundi qui male temptantem curru Phaethonta loquantur35 exstinctasque canant emisso fulmine flammas fumantemque Padum, Cycnum plumamque senilem et flentis semper germani funere siluas.
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They must have the treasures of the sea, shells and pinnas, [636] and more of them than wool from the sheep's back.
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I confess, though the possibility of the pearl increasing in size and loveliness was obvious, that the fact that pinnas are subject to ills, chances, and mishaps, was also recognised.
Tropic Days 1887
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North Queensland, within the Great Barrier Reef, pinnas of at least two species are among the producing agents, which, covering a wide range, seem to meet in two distinct genera, far apart in appearance and habit.
Tropic Days 1887
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