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- adjective having pinnate leaves
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Examples
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For example, the palms were much more abundant than I had generally found them in the East, more generally mingled with the other vegetation, more varied in form and aspect, and presenting some of those lofty and majestic smooth-stemmed, pinnate-leaved species which recall the Uauassu (Attalea speciosa) of the Amazon, but which I had hitherto rarely met with in the Malayan islands.
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I had a lot of the pinnate-leaved variety with purple flowers and somewhat stouter stems, and cultivated single plants of the whiteflowering sort at distances that varied from 2-16 meters.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Its place in the system leaves no doubt concerning its origin from pinnate-leaved ancestors.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Spiraea caespitosa and the beautiful pinnate-leaved Spiraea millefolia.
Steep Trails John Muir 1876
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The nest is cup-shaped, made of dry bamboo-leaves, intermixed with a very few pieces of climber-stems, and thickly lined with old leaf-stalks of some pinnate-leaved tree.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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For example, the palms were much more abundant than I had generally found them in the East, more generally mingled with the other vegetation, more varied in form and aspect, and presenting some of those lofty and majestic smooth-stemmed, pinnate-leaved species which recall the Uauassu (Attalea speciosa) of the Amazon, but which I had hitherto rarely met with in the Malayan islands.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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