Pinna

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Botany A leaflet or primary division of a pinnately compound leaf.
  • n. Zoology A feather, wing, fin, or similar appendage.
  • n. Anatomy See auricle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The visible part of the ear that resides outside of the head, the auricle.
  • n. A leaflet or primary segment of a pinnate compound leaf.
  • n. A feather, wing, fin, or other similar appendage.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n.
  • n. A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under bipinnate.
  • n. One of the primary divisions of a decompound leaf.
  • n. One of the divisions of a pinnate part or organ.
  • 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.
  • n. The auricle of the ear. See Ear.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In anat. and zoöl.:
  • n. A feather. See penna.
  • n. A bird's wing. See pinion.
  • n. A fish's fin: the usual technical name.
  • n. Some wing-like or fin-like part or organ, as the flipper of a seal or cetacean.
  • n. The outer ear, which projects from the head; the auricle, or pavilion of the ear. See cut under ear.
  • n. The nostril, or wing of the nose.
  • n. One of the smaller branches of some polyps, as plumularians.
  • n. In entomology, a small oblique ridge forming one of the lines of a pinnate surface. See pinnate.
  • n. In botany, one of the primary divisions of a pinnate leaf: applied most commonly to ferns.
  • n. the alæ nasi; the nostrils.
  • n. A genus of bivalves, typical of the family Pinnidæ.
  • n. [l. c] A bivalve mollusk of the genus Pinna.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear
  • n. division of a usually pinnately divided leaf
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
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    Variant
    pinnae    bipinnate    ear   
    Form
    pinnal    pinnule    pinnate    pinniped   
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