pinnae
- plural of pinna.
Example Sentences
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Their ear flaps, or pinnae, can independently rotate forward, backward, and sideways to zero in on a sound’s location.
From National Geographic • Jan. 2, 2024
Researchers have found a new protozoan, Haplosporidium pinnae, in dead and dying mussels.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 17, 2021
Carella says bacterial infections are having a greater impact than the parasite in Italy as well as Greece and Croatia, noting that H. pinnae was absent when she first described the disease in Italy.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 17, 2021
Their pinnae are strongly reduced: essentially just being a slim semicircle of tissue concealed by pelage.
From Scientific American • Jan. 13, 2014
The pinnae are formed by the elongated autozooids, whose proximal portions are fused together to form a leaf-like expansion, from the upper edge of which the distal extremities of the zooids project.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
