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pennate

pennate adjective: having a feather-like shape.

Adjective

pennate (not comparable)

  1. Having a feather-like shape
    • Addition of iron to surface waters in these areas induces massive phytoplankton blooms dominated primarily by pennate diatoms.2008 November 26, Adrian Marchetti et al., “Ferritin is used for iron storage in bloom-forming marine pennate diatoms”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7228, →DOI

Noun

pennate (plural pennates)

  1. A penniform muscle

Forms of pennate

pluralpennates

Origin of pennate

From Latin pennātus.

Words formed from pennate

Questions about pennate

What does pennate mean?
Pennate means having a feather-like shape.
What part of speech is pennate?
Pennate can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near pennate in the dictionary

  1. pennants
  2. pennaraptoran
  3. pennaraptorans
  4. Pennard
  5. Pennas
  6. pennate
  7. pennated
  8. pennates
  9. pennatifid
  10. pennation
  11. pennatula

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