Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Pinnately divided or cleft.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, cut or cleft in a pinnate manner, with the divisions half-way down or more, and the sinuses or lobes narrow or acute. Also
pinnisected .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany, of leaves Having
lobes withincisions that extend less than half-way toward themidrib .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a leaf shape) cleft nearly to the midrib in broad divisions not separated into distinct leaflets
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Examples
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THYSANOTUS ELATIOR was again found here; and a shrubby CRUCIFEROUS plant, quite woody at the base, with very narrow linear setaceous pinnatifid leaves,173 and linear curved torulose silicules.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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EREMOPHILA MITCHELLII; a singular little POLYGONUM with the aspect of a TILLOEA; two very distinct little FRANKENIAS101, and a new scabrous HALORAGIS with pinnatifid leaves. 102 The extensive burning by the natives, a work of considerable labour, and performed in dry warm weather, left tracts in the open forest, which had become green as an emerald with the young crop of grass.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Primary pinnæ in outline like the frond; the secondary, pinnatifid into oblong and obtuse, cut-toothed lobes.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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An unusually large and rare form with triangular, lanceolate, and pinnatifid pinnules, having blunt, oblong segments.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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Pinnæ lanceolate, pinnatifid, the lowest pairs gradually shorter and deflexed.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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Fronds one to three feet high, scattered along a creeping rootstock, broadly triangular, deeply pinnatifid, with segments sinuately lobed or nearly entire.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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Pinnæ lanceolate, deeply pinnatifid, the lower most often turned inward.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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Fronds twice pinnate with the lower pinnules pinnatifid
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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I observed a curious tendency to anastomosis, or self-grafting in the roots of Morus: this in its young state often has pinnatifid artacarpoid leaves.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Fronds oblong-lanceolate, five to twelve inches long, twice pinnate, the pinnæ often pinnatifid or cut-toothed, ovate-lanceolate, decurrent on the winged rachis.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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