like a feather in appearance (of compound leaves) having the leaflets growing opposite each other in pairs on either side of the stem
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pin•nate
(pin′āt, -it),USA pronunciation adj.
pin′nate•ly, pin′nat•ed•ly, adv.
- resembling a feather, as in construction or arrangement;
having parts arranged on each side of a common axis:a pinnate branch; pinnate trees. - Botany(of a leaf ) having leaflets or primary divisions arranged on each side of a common stalk.
- Latin pinnātus feathered, winged. See pinna, -ate1
- 1695–1705
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'pinnate' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
African marigold
- Greek valerian
- abruptly pinnate
- agrimony
- ailanthus
- albizzia
- algarroba
- ash
- bipinnate
- bitter cress
- black locust
- black walnut
- bladder fern
- box elder
- burnet
- caltrop family
- catclaw
- cohune
- conjugate
- coontie
- cycad
- date palm
- deerweed
- digitipinnate
- dioon
- dusty miller
- dwarf sumac
- elder
- epimedium
- false indigo
- feather palm
- goatsbeard
- golden rain tree
- hakea
- imparipinnate
- indigo
- jugate
- kaka beak
- lead tree
- lebbek
- locust
- lyrate
- mahogany family
- nandina
- nightshade family
- oak fern
- odd-pinnate
- palm
- paripinnate
- parrot's-feather