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ALL meanings of pinnule

pin·nule
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  • noun pinnule Zoology. a part or organ resembling a barb of a feather, a fin, or the like. a finlet. 1
  • noun pinnule Botany. a secondary pinna, one of the pinnately disposed divisions of a bipinnate leaf. 1
  • noun pinnule a metal plate with a small hole in it, used as a sight in a quadrant. 1
  • noun pinnule any of the lobes of a leaflet of a pinnate compound leaf, which is itself pinnately divided 0
  • noun pinnule any feather-like part, such as any of the arms of a sea lily 0
  • noun pinnule any of the smallest divisions of a leaf which is doubly compound, esp. in ferns 0
  • noun pinnule any of the lateral branches of the arm of a crinoid 0
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