Definitions for pinnate

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pinnate pin·nate

Spelling: [pin-eyt, -it]

IPA: /ˈpɪn eɪt, -ɪt/

Pinnate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in pinnate (aeinnpt).

Definitions for pinnate

adjective

1. resembling a feather, as in construction or arrangement; having parts arranged on each side of a common axis:
2. Botany. (of a leaf) having leaflets or primary divisions arranged on each side of a common stalk.

Origin of pinnate

First recorded in 1695-1705, pinnate is from the Latin word pinnātus feathered, winged. See pinna, -ate¹

Examples for pinnate

The leaves are pinnate, and they unroll, when they expand, like those of the ferns.

Trees or shrubs, with opposite and pinnate or simple leaves.

Upon the germination of the seeds the primary leaves are pinnate.

Each apophysis is pinnate with opposite pinnul, or crossed at right angles by three to six parallel transverse rods.

The origin is by two distinct heads, each of which is pinnate.

It is a large, spreading tree, with pinnate, shining leaves.

Small, fronds 1-2 pinnate, fruit-dots linear-oblong, often confluent.

The leaves are brownish, pinnate; their segments imbricated.

Medium-sized, fronds thin, oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 pinnate or pinnatifid.

The leaves are large, pinnate, shining, and very smooth and irregular.