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longipinnate

longipinnate adjective: having long, extended flippers.

Adjective

longipinnate (not comparable)

  1. Having long, extended flippers.

Noun

longipinnate (plural longipinnates)

  1. An ichthyosaur having such flippers.

Forms of longipinnate

plurallongipinnates

Origin of longipinnate

From Latin longus (“long”) + pinnate, from pinna (“a fin”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). Doublet of longipennate.

Questions about longipinnate

What does longipinnate mean?
Longipinnate means having long, extended flippers.
What part of speech is longipinnate?
Longipinnate can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near longipinnate in the dictionary

  1. longipedlactones
  2. longipennate
  3. longipennine
  4. longipin
  5. longipinene
  6. longipinnate
  7. longipinnates
  8. longipterygid
  9. longiroster
  10. longirosters
  11. longirostral

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