odd-pinnate

British

adjective

(of a plant leaf) pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex

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Pod 1–several-seeded, septate within between the seeds.—Herbs or shrubs, mostly canescent with appressed hairs fixed by the middle, with odd-pinnate faintly-nerved leaves, and pink or purplish flowers in naked axillary spikes.

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Leaves large, odd-pinnate, alternate, appearing much like those of the Ailanthus, but with slight serrations near the tips of the leaflets, and no glands near the base.

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Trees, with close or scaly bark, odd-pinnate leaves and serrate leaflets.

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Botanical Description.—A small tree 12° high with leaves alternate, odd-pinnate.

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Pod flattened, composed of several equal-sided separable roundish joints connected in the middle.—Perennial herbs; leaves odd-pinnate.

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