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pinnate
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pinnate
featherlike; said of a muscle in which the fibers lie at angles to its tendon. The fibers may be unipinnate, bipinnate, etc.
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Mesquite is a versatile desert denizen with the feathery, bipinnate foliage characteristic of leguminous, self-fertilizing trees.
Mesquite and other desert denizens need little water by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
0 cm long, broadly triangular, bipinnate to tripinnate; fertile stalk arising from base of blade or base of petiole; sporangia on branching segments at upper end of fertile stalk.
Pteridophytes of southeast Alabama: Dichotomous keys, illustrations ... by Woods, Michael; Diamond, Alvin R., Jr / Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
The first form, the normal leaf, consists of true leaves that are bipinnate or occasionally tripinnate.
Perfumed finery! by Gulf Daily News (Manama, Bahrain)
 
 
 
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