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odd-pinnate

British  

adjective

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

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Hard-wooded trees with alternate, odd-pinnate leaves having straight-veined leaflets.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Shrubs or trees with mostly odd-pinnate, alternate leaves.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

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.

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

Leaves odd-pinnate; shrub or small tree, with few, heavy-tipped branches; no spines or prickles 27. Rhus. t.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Pod linear, flat, several seeded, 2-valved.—Hoary perennial herbs, with odd-pinnate leaves, and white or purplish racemed flowers.

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