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PINNATE LEAF

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A leaf resembling a feather; having the leaflets on each side of a common axis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pinnate leaf" is a kind of...):

compound leaf (a leaf composed of a number of leaflets on a common stalk)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pinnate leaf"):

bijugate leaf; bijugous leaf; twice-pinnate (a pinnate leaf having two pairs of leaflets)

bipinnate leaf (a leaf having pinnate leaflets; as ferns)

abruptly-pinnate leaf; even-pinnate leaf (a pinnate leaf with a pair of leaflets at the apex)

odd-pinnate leaf (a pinnate leaf with a single leaflet at the apex)

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