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longipennate

longipennate adjective: having long wings or quills.

Adjective

longipennate (comparative more longipennate, superlative most longipennate)

  1. Having long wings or quills
    1. Having wings that, when folded, extend past the end of the tail.

Forms of longipennate

comparativemore longipennate
superlativemost longipennate

Origin of longipennate

From Latin longus (“long”) + pennate, from penna (“a wing”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of longipinnate.

Questions about longipennate

What does longipennate mean?
Longipennate means having long wings or quills.
What part of speech is longipennate?
Longipennate is an adjective.

Words near longipennate in the dictionary

  1. longipalatal
  2. longipalpate
  3. longipedate
  4. longipedlactone
  5. longipedlactones
  6. longipennate
  7. longipennine
  8. longipin
  9. longipinene
  10. longipinnate
  11. longipinnates

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