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bipinnate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /bʌɪˈpɪneɪt/ (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin bipinnātus or from bi + pinnate.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a leaf) Doubly pinnate; pinnate and having leaflets that are themselves pinnate.
    • Three hours later Boyles and Rise are propped up against the trunk of the sole acacia tree on the knoll, drinking up the bipinnate shade. 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 307:

Deriveds

bipinnately

Relateds

decompound

Translations (3)

fr bipenné (pinnate) · la bipinnatus (pinnate) · it bipennato (pinnate)