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pennation

pennation noun: the presence of pennate features.

Noun

pennation

  1. The presence of pennate features
    • These females differ from all other Palaearctic Pararhamphomyia by the following combination of characters: body entirely dark setose, dorsocentrals almost regularly uniserial, halter yellow, clypeus lustrous, both mid and hind femora broadly pennate, tibiae without pennation and abdomen lustrous...2015 July 27, Miroslav Barták, Štěpán Kubík, “Palaearctic species of Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) anfractuosa group (Diptera, Empididae)”, in ZooKeys, →DOI

Questions about pennation

What does pennation mean?
Pennation means the presence of pennate features.
What part of speech is pennation?
Pennation is a noun.

Words near pennation in the dictionary

  1. Pennas
  2. pennate
  3. pennated
  4. pennates
  5. pennatifid
  6. pennation
  7. pennatula
  8. pennatulacean
  9. pennatulaceans
  10. pennatulaceous
  11. pennatulae

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