Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having pinnate parts that are themselves pinnate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Doubly pinnate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Twice pinnate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany, of a leaf
Pinnate and havingleaflets that are themselves pinnate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a leaf shape; having doubly pinnate leaflets (as ferns)
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Examples
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Pinna Primary division of a pinnate or bipinnate leaf.
Chapter 9 1999
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The leaves are bipinnate with 2-6 opposite pairs of pinnae, each having 8-21 leaflets on short stalks.
Chapter 10 1996
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It is distinguished by its phonology, whitish twigs and paired thorns, blue green bipinnate leaves lacking a petiolar gland, but with glands between nearly all its 2-12 pinnate pairs.
Chapter 10 1996
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Young seedlings have bipinnate compound true leaves with 12 to 15 pairs of lesflets.
Chapter 8 1996
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With their bipinnate leaves, calliandras superficially resemble Leucaena and Mimosa species.
Chapter 8 1996
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With their bipinnate leaves, calliandras superficially resemble Leucaena and Mimosa species.
Chapter 10 1996
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Leaves are bipinnate, and leaflets oblong to 4 cm in length.
Chapter 8 1996
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The phyllodenous Acacia spp. tend to have marginally higher CF and lower CP levels than bipinnate species (Appendix 2) though the available data consist of fewer observations.
Chapter 2 1994
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Information on leaf yield of African bipinnate Acacia spp. is limited, and comparative data with introduced Australian species, even more so.
Chapter 2 1994
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There are about 200 bipinnate Acacia species in the New World and a further 150 species in Africa and Asia.
Chapter 2 1994
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