pinna
noun
one of the primary divisions of a pinnate leaf.
pinnas
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pluralof pinna.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I confess, though the possibility of the pearl increasing in size and loveliness was obvious, that the fact that pinnas are subject to ills, chances, and mishaps, was also recognised.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
The seuenth a pinnas called Frisland, of burden about seuenty tuns.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt
And Cratinus also speaks of the pinna in his Archilochi— She indeed like pinnas and sea oysters.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
When they design to make many pinnas, or spongy lumps of various weights, these are divided from each other by thin beds or layers of earth, which hinder them from uniting.
The eighth a pinnas that had been in the former voiage called the Pidgeon, now the Ouerijssel, of the burden of fifty tuns.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt
