pinnate

Meaning

Adjective

  • Resembling a feather.
  • Having two rows of branches, lobes, leaflets, or veins arranged on each side of a common axis
  • Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck.
  • Having wings or fins.

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Origin

  • From Latin pinnātus, from pinna

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