English to English Dictionary -pennate

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Bipennate :: Bipennate (a.) Alt. of Bipennate.

Bipennated :: Bipennated (a.) Having two wings.

Brevipennate :: Brevipennate (a.) Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu..

Impennate :: Impennate (a.) Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as the penguins..

Impennate :: Impennate (n.) One of the Impennes.

Longipennate :: Longipennate (a.) Having long wings, or quills..

Penna :: Penna (n.) A perfect, or normal, feather..

Pennaceous :: Pennaceous (a.) Like or pertaining to a normal feather.

Pennach :: Pennach (n.) A bunch of feathers; a plume.

Pennached :: Pennached (a.) Variegated; striped.

Pennae :: Pennae (pl. ) of Penn.

Pennage :: Pennage (n.) Feathery covering; plumage.

Pennant :: Pennant (n.) A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, / long, pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel..

Pennant :: Pennant (n.) A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.

Pennate :: Pennate (a.) Alt. of Pennate.

Pennated :: Pennated (a.) Winged; plume-shaped.

Pennated :: Pennated (a.) Same as Pinnate.

Pennatula :: Pennatula (n.) Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches..

Pennatulacea :: Pennatulacea (n. pl.) A division of alcyonoid corals, including the seapens and related kinds. They are able to move about by means of the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria..

Pennatulae :: Pennatulae (pl. ) of Pennatul.

Pennatulas :: Pennatulas (pl. ) of Pennatul.

Planipennate :: Planipennate (a.) Of or pertaining to Planipennia.

Quadripennate :: Quadripennate (a.) Having four wings; -- said of insects.

Tripennate :: Tripennate (a.) Same as Tripinnate.