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Definition of Pinnae
1. pinna [n] - See also: pinna
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinnae
Literary usage of Pinnae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"Rachis of pinnae winged only near apex 17. atratum Free pinnules few 16. ...
pinnae oblique at base. Moderately oblique. pinnae more than 4 cm long 30. ..."
2. Contributions to the Knowledge of the Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia by William Morris Fontaine (1883)
"slightly rounded at base, and more or less acute at their extremities, being
separate to the rachis of the pinnae, and inserted by their entire base, ..."
3. Publications by Bureau of Government Laboratories, Philippines, Department of the Interior (1906)
"Sori not confined to lobes, pinnae not lobed over half way to costa. ...
Segments of pinnae sharp toothed (45) 2V. Otaria 3. Lower pinnae shorter than the ..."
4. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: A Description of Their Phanerogams and by William Hillebrand (1888)
"Stipes green or pale brown : pinnae ... pinnate on both sides pinnae lanceolate:
Stipes green when fresh, dull gray when dry: Frond pinnate to the apex; ..."
5. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Fronds upright (2-5 dm. tall), linear- oblanceolate in outline, fertile ones much
the taller; pinnae (1-3 cm. long) firmly membranaceous, mostly alternate, ..."
6. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1907)
"All the lower pinnae are sometimes equally and extremely reduced, the largest
ones being immediately above these; such fronds are physiologically like those ..."
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