Definitions for Pinna

Pinna pin·na

Spelling: [pin-uh]
IPA: /ˈpɪn ə/

Pinna is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in Pinna (ainnp).

Definitions for Pinna

noun

  1. Botany. one of the primary divisions of a pinnate leaf.
  2. Zoology. a feather, wing, or winglike part. a fin or flipper.
  3. Anatomy. auricle (def 1a).

Origin of Pinna

1660-70; Latin: feather, wing, fin

Examples for Pinna

It is covered by the auricular muscles, and by the base of the pinna of the ear.

pinna bullata, Swainson (Fig. 168), is also a well-known species.

We are supposing, in the description of the muscles which move it, that this pinna has its opening directed outwards.

A marked difference is noted in the size of the pinna of the ear in the various species.

pinna, a primary division with its leaflets of a bipinnate or tripinnate leaf.

It inclines the pinna outwards; it is, accordingly, an abductor of the pinna.

The lower part of the pinna is the lobule (e), which contains no cartilage.

They are found in an oyster which is something like the pinna, only less.

Our figure of pinna, 16, is from a young specimen: it grows to great size, and spins a very silky byssus.

Gloves have been made from the byssal fibers of pinna mixed with silk.

Word Value for Pinna
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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