- a variation of imparipinnate.
odd-pinnate
Britishadjective
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Trees with alternate, odd-pinnate leaves, of 5 to 17 leaflets, with 2 to 4 axillary buds, the uppermost the largest.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
Trees, with close or scaly bark, odd-pinnate leaves and serrate leaflets.
From The Pecan and its Culture by H. Harold (Hardrada Harold) Hume
Leaves quite regularly twice odd-pinnate; leaflets about 1 in. long; juice not milky; fruit rounded berries in large clusters; plant not prickly; branchlets not heavy-tipped 15. Melia. r.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
Pod oblong, longer than the calyx, 1–2-seeded, roughened, tardily dehiscent.—Shrubs, with odd-pinnate leaves; the leaflets marked with minute dots, usually stipellate, the midvein excurrent.
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 Asa Gray
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.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
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