bipinnate
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of bipinnate
From the New Latin word bipinnātus, dating back to 1785–95; see bi- 1, pinnate
Example Sentences
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“There were two options: You move the house, or the tree dies,” says Duprat, 69, on a temperate afternoon this past August, standing beneath its delicate bipinnate leaves.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
Fronds one to three feet high, minutely glandular and hairy, ovate-lanceolate, pale green, very thin and mostly bipinnate.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by Tilton, George Henry
What a world of beauty in this bipinnate frond!
From Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time by Collins, Wilkie
The fertile fronds shorter, closely bipinnate with the pinnules rolled up into berry-like structures which contain the spore cases.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by Tilton, George Henry
Pod flat, oblong, often falcate, few–several-seeded.—Low perennial herbs, or woody at base, punctate with black glands, with bipinnate leaves, and naked racemes of yellow flowers opposite the leaves or terminal.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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