pinnae in English

noun
1
the external part of the ear in humans and other mammals; the auricle.
Under direct vision the excessive hair follicles of the external ear canal and pinna were targeted by the laser beam.
2
a primary division of a pinnate leaf, especially of a fern.
Each leaf has many pinnae and a leaf axis that is subdivided into a midrib and a petiole.
3
any of a number of animal structures resembling fins or wings.
They get their name from the Latin words pinna (feather or wing) and pedes (feet).
noun

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1. The pinnae are Auricled with marginal bristle teeth and are dimorphic with 20-35 pinnae pairs

2. Lamancha goats are perhaps the most distinctive goat breed; easily recognizable by their very short ear pinnae.

3. The reproductive sori are characteristically all along the edges of the pinnae (leaflets) in Bracken Fern.

4. The leaves are Bipinnate with 2-6 opposite pairs of pinnae, each having 8-21 leaflets on short stalks.

5. He was born with an extra set of outer ear flaps, or pinnae , and once the photo was posted on the Internet ...

6. Pinnae of 3d pair sessile with basal basiscopic pinnule equaling adjacent pinnule and equaling basal Acroscopic pinnules; basal Acroscopic pinnule equaling or slightly shorter than adjacent pinnule

7. Pinnae of 3d pair sessile with basal basiscopic pinnule equaling adjacent pinnule and equaling basal Acroscopic pinnules; basal Acroscopic pinnule equaling or slightly shorter than adjacent pinnule

8. Pinnae of 3d pair usually sessile with basal basiscopic pinnule shorter than adjacent pinnule and equaling basal Acroscopic pinnule; basal Acroscopic pinnule equaling or shorter than adjacent pinnule

9. Pinnae of 3d pair usually sessile with basal basiscopic pinnule longer than or equaling adjacent pinnule and longer than basal Acroscopic pinnule; basal Acroscopic pinnule shorter than adjacent pinnule

10. Pinnae of 3d pair usually sessile with basal basiscopic pinnule shorter than adjacent pinnule and equaling or shorter than basal Acroscopic pinnule; basal Acroscopic pinnule equaling or shorter than adjacent pinnule

11. ‘It is a graceful arching fern with fronds that are generally Bipinnate, although the basal pinnae are tripinnate.’ ‘The bright green Bipinnate leaves are up to 15 cm long.’ Word of the day

12. Cropping is the removal of part or all of the pinnae or auricles, the external visible flap of the ear and earhole, of an animal; it sometimes involves taping to make the ears point upright

13. Specimens of Doneggia complura gen. et sp. nov. consist of up to three orders of biseriately branched frond segments with abaxial curvature of the vascular strand in proximal pinnae and large sori of superficially borne sporangia on laminar pinnules.

14. Rhizomes short and erect or ascending; lamina dull or lustrous adaxially; laminar segments arranged Catadromously except secondary segments of basalmost pair of pinnae of bipinnate fronds; if laminar segments arranged anadromously then lamina (2 or)3- or 4-pinnate and ultimate pinnules of lamina asymmetrical at base (Dryopteris sect

15. In some taxa within the Podostemaceae, typical leaf characteristics may be replaced by new properties, e.g., 90° switch of symmetry plane of the leaf primordium with production of pinnae or lobes along the adaxial and abaxial margin in Marathrum rubrum and Mourera fluviatilis.