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Wing-leaved :: Wing-leaved (a.) Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves.

Needle :: Needle (n.) Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc..

Pinna :: Pinna (n.) A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate..

Pinnated :: Pinnated (a.) Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck.

Pinnacle :: Pinnacle (n.) An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc..

Pinna :: Pinna (n.) One of the primary divisions of a decompound leaf.

Interrupted :: Interrupted (a.) Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf..

Pinnately :: Pinnately (adv.) In a pinnate manner.

Pinnacle :: Pinnacle (v. t.) To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.

Squab :: Spyne (n.) See Pinnace, n., 1 (a)..

Pari- :: Pari- () A combining form signifying equal; as, paridigitate, paripinnate..

Bipinnatifid :: Bipinnatifid (a.) Doubly pinnatifid.

Pinna :: Pinna (n.) Any species of Pinna, a genus of large bivalve mollusks found in all warm seas. The byssus consists of a large number of long, silky fibers, which have been used in manufacturing woven fabrics, as a curiosity..

Poinciana :: Poinciana (n.) A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments..

Rhachis :: Rhachis (n.) The continued stem or midrib of a pinnately compound leaf, as in a rose leaf or a fern..

Jugum :: Jugum (n.) A pair of the opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant.

Pinnacled :: Pinnacled (imp. & p. p.) of Pinnacl.

Osmund :: Osmund (n.) A fern of the genus Osmunda, or flowering fern. The most remarkable species is the osmund royal, or royal fern (Osmunda regalis), which grows in wet or boggy places, and has large bipinnate fronds, often with a panicle of capsules at the top. The rootstock contains much starch, and has been used in stiffening linen..

Pepper Dulse :: Pepper dulse () A variety of edible seaweed (Laurencia pinnatifida) distinguished for its pungency.

Pinna :: Pinna (n.) The auricle of the ear. See Ear.

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