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pinnae

  • plural
    of pinna.
    pinna
    noun
    one of the primary divisions of a pinnate leaf.

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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

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

Researchers have found a new protozoan, Haplosporidium pinnae, in dead and dying mussels.

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

Stems or branches pinnate: pinnae or branches alternate, straight, divaricate.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by John MacGillivray