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pinnule

NOUN
  1. division of a usually pinnately divided leaf

How To Use pinnule In A Sentence

  • Sori borne along the longitudinal veins and the reflexed edges of the ultimate segments of pinnules.
  • The branchia is translucent white with brown spots and white-tipped brown pinnules.
  • Recent crinoids are passive suspension feeders on microscopic plant and animal plankton and organic detritus by means of the tubefeet of the water vascular system in their arms and pinnules.
  • Lepidoteris fronds typically have so-called intercalary pinnules along the rachis between the primary pinnae, and are covered with the characteristic blisters mentioned above.
  • Pinnules toothed or entire nearly covered beneath with the large, thin, imbricated indusia which are orbicular with a narrow sinus, having the margins ragged and sparingly glanduliferous. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
  • If the primary pinnae are divided, then the individual divisions are known as pinnules.
  • It should have required less energy for the crinoid to regenerate the damaged pinnules than to regenerate a lost or damaged tegmen containing part of the gut tract.
  • They are commonly referred to as the Lip Ferns because the sori are borne at the margins of the pinnules and the leaf margins themselves are often reflexed to form false indusia that protect the sori.
  • The most common elements are parallel-veined leaves that resemble cordaites but that could be isolated pinnules of a pinnate leaf.
  • Fronds pale green, one to six feet high; sterile part bipinnate, each pinna having numerous pairs of lance-oblong, serrulate pinnules alternate along the midrib. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
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