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pinnately compound -- Leaves which are divided up like a feather are said to be pinnately compound.
pistil -- The central set of organs in a flower; it is composed of one or more carpels. More info?
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Pinnate-netted, penniribbed, penninerved, penniveined; the leaf has usually one main vein (called the mid-vein), with veinlets, smaller veins branching off laterally, usually somewhat parallel to each other; eg Malus (apples).
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pinna The external ear. Also a feather, wing, or fin or similar part.
pinnate Denoting an arrangement of leaflets (or lobes on a simple leaf) along a main central unit.
pinnately compound leaf Leaflets attached on both sides of a common axis.
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pinna
1. the primary division of a leaf. 2. a wing or fin. 3. the projecting part of the external ear of mammals.
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conjugate - of a pinnate leaflet; having only one pair of leaflets
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conjugate - formed by the union of two compounds; "a conjugated protein" ...
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Cycads retain some fern-like features, notably pinnate leaves and circinate vernation. However, they (usually) produce cones of nonphotosynthetic reproductive structures.
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About 30,000 federal and state judges, representing the pinnacle of the government's authority, want to dispense justice through fair trials. The definitive power is the ability of the state to take the life of a person convicted of a capital crime.
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Elastic cartilage (also called yellow cartilage) is found in the pinna of the ear and several tubes, such as the walls of the auditory and eustachian canals and larynx. Cartilage is present to keep the tubes permanently open.
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The popular notion that evolution can be represented as a series of improvements from simple cells, through more complex life forms, to humans (the pinnacle of evolution), can be traced to the concept of the scale of nature. This view is incorrect.
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