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Pinnate [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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Pinnate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In botany, a pinnate leaf is a species of compound leaf wherein a simple petiole has several leaflets attached to each side of it.

Pinnate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Pinnated

Pinnated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Consisting of several leaflets, or separate portions, arranged on each side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush, a hickory, or an ash. See Abruptly pinnate, and Illust., under Abruptly.

2. Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck.

Pinnately [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a pinnate manner.