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Definition of Odd-pinnate
1. Adjective. (a leaf shape) pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex.
Definition of Odd-pinnate
1. Adjective. (botany) pinnate with a single leaflets at the apex ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Odd-pinnate
1. Said of compound leaves having an odd number of leaflets, this is usually easily determined because there is a single terminal leaflet. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Odd-pinnate
Literary usage of Odd-pinnate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"Climbing shrub, with few or no aerial rootlets: Ivs. odd-pinnate; Ifts. usually 7-9.
.... Evergreen climbing shrub: Ivs. odd-pinnate, with 9-15 elliptic to ..."
2. Trees of the Northern United States: Their Study, Description and by Austin Craig Apgar (1892)
"Leaves quite regularly twice odd-pinnate; leaflets about 1 in. long; juice not
milky; ... I. Leaves once to twice irregularly odd-pinnate; the leaflets very ..."
3. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray (1868)
"Leaves odd-pinnate, with several pairs of leaflets, sometimes sensitive, as if
shrinking from the touch (whence the name, ..."
4. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"... and fr. quite smooth. . odd-pinnate stalked, 3 or 4 in. long. Lfts. in mostly
4 or 5 pairs, ovate- or elliptic-oblong acute, sharply strongly and ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Evergreen climbing shrub: Ivs. odd-pinnate with usually 6 ... odd-pinnate; Ifts.
serrate: fls. in terminal panicles or racemes; calyx campanulate, ..."
6. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Leaves odd-pinnate, with adnate stipules and toothed leaflets. ... Leaves odd-pinnate,
with smaller leaflets interposed between the larger ones. ..."
7. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"Leaves odd-pinnate, mostly dotted with dark spots «• ¡/lands. ... Leaflets several,
odd-pinnate, small. Pod of thickish oblong joints. ..."
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