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pinnatifid
[ pi-nat-uh-fid ]
adjective
, Botany.
- (of a leaf ) pinnately cleft, with clefts reaching halfway or more to the midrib.
pinnatifid
/ pɪˈnætɪfɪd /
adjective
- (of leaves) pinnately divided into lobes reaching more than halfway to the midrib
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Derived Forms
- pinˈnatifidly, adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pinnatifid1
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Example Sentences
The leaves are sessile and pinnatifid, with very narrow segments, and the white flowers grow in solitary heads.
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This is another of the downy species, its pinnatifid leaves having quite a woolly appearance.
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It differs from the last in having ternate radical leaves with pinnatifid lobes, and the upper leaves, bi-pinnatifid.
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They are usually twice pinnatifid, the pinnules being connected by a very narrow foliaceous border along the midribs.
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Traillæ, which has “very large bipinnate fronds, all the pinnules pinnatifid.”
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