Of leaves and other natural objects: Having the margins deeply indented and divided.

In special scientific applications. Botany. = pinnate, adj. 1a. Also winged clefts, the divisions of a pinnatifid leaf (cf. wing-cleft adj. at wing…

Resembling a feather; having lateral parts or branches on each side of a common axis, like the vanes of… Botany. Of a compound leaf: composed of…

= conjugate, adj. in various senses.

(a) Botany = trifoliate, adj.; (b) Architecture. Having or consisting of trefoils: see trefoil, n. 3.

= auriculate, adj. auriculated (or sociable) vulture: a species of vulture which has a fleshy crest extending from each ear along the side of the…

Botany. Of leaves: Having at the base a pair of small, blunt projections, shaped like the lower lobe of the human ear.

Botany. Of a leaf: pinnate. Obsolete.

Botany and Zoology. = pinnate, adj. 1a 1b.

Botany. Of a leaf: pinnate. Also: having such leaves. Obsolete.

Botany. Of a leaf: having a petiole that branches dichotomously, esp. with a single pair of leaflets on each secondary petiole; biconjugate. Now rare.

= lyrate, adj.

= pedate, adj.

Of a leaf or frond: pinnately divided about halfway to the midrib.

= supradecompound adj.

(of a leaf or inflorescence) additionally decompound; triply or more than triply compound; cf. superdecompound, adj.

Three-leaved; esp. in Botany consisting of three leaflets, as a compound leaf; also of a plant, having such leaves; transferred having the form of…

Shaped like a lyre. In Botany, of a leaf: Pinnatifid, with the upper lobes much larger than the lower.

Shaped like a foot, esp. that of a bird; (Botany) designating or characterized by a leaf shape or venation pattern similar to a palmate or digitate…

Of a compound leaf: having five leaflets growing from a common point.

Produced or arranged in threes; spec. Botany applied to a compound leaf composed of three leaflets, or to leaves arranged in whorls of three; also…

Of a leaf: Triply pinnate; having leaflets pinnately arranged on tertiary petioles similarly arranged: see pinnate, adj. 1a, and cf. bipinnate, adj.…

Esp. of an antler: palmate. Also: bearing palmate antlers. Now rare.

= bilobed, adj.

= lyrate, adj.

divided into lobes resembling the fingers of a hand, as in a palmate leaf.

Botany. = supradecompound adj. at supra-, prefix affix 4. Now rare.

Doubly or subordinately pinnate; see quot.

Doubly or subordinately ternate.

Botany. Said of leaves or (formerly) flowers which grow in pairs; spec. applied to a pinnate leaf having only one pair of leaflets.

Having a lobe or lobes; lobated. Chiefly Natural History.

(See quots.)

= pinnatifid, adj. (cf. 11b).

Botany. Of a leaf or leaves: consisting of one or more pairs of opposite leaflets; also (with distinguishing word or number) having a specified…

Arranged in couples. ˈbinately adv. in pairs.

Of a leaf: having seven leaflets growing from a common point. Cf. septemfoliate adj. at septem-, comb._form affix.

having three pairs of leaflets: said of a pinnate leaf.

Furnished with an auricle or auricles, auriculate.

Having the form of or resembling a fin or feather; pinnate.

Consisting of many pairs, esp. (Botany) pairs of leaflets (cf. multijugate, adj. 1).

Having pinnules.

Consisting of three leaflets, or having leaves of this form; trifoliate. (Abbreviated 3-foliolate.)

Of leaves: Pinnatifid, with the primary lobes or pinnæ themselves similarly divided.

Of a leaf: having many (more than 7 or 9) leaflets. Of a plant: characterized by such leaves; multifoliate.

Of a leaf: having more than one pair of leaflets.

(of a leaf) quinate.

Having or composed of two leaflets: see quot. 1835.

= pinnatisect adj.

palmately cleft; (of a plant) having leaves or other parts of this form.

triply pinnatifid, or pinnatisect; tripinnately divided half-way, or quite, to the base.

Botany. Having (a specified number of) leaflets.

palmately divided (almost) to the base.

= pinnatilobed adj.

(of a leaf) pinnately divided most of the way to the midrib.

(of a leaf) pinnately divided almost to the midrib, without forming separate free leaflets.

= bipinnate, adj. 1.

Twice paired: applied e.g. in Botany to a petiole that forks twice.

Pinnate (as a leaf) with an odd terminal leaflet.

Pinnate with an even number of leaflets, i.e. without a terminal leaflet. Cf. imparipinnate, adj.

= pinnulate, adj.

Botany. Of a simple leaf: cleft or partite; esp. pinnatifid, pinnatipartite, or pinnatisect. rare.

Of a leaf: having many (more than 7 or 9) leaflets. Of a plant: characterized by such leaves. Also gen.: involving many leaves; manifold.

Applied to a compound leaf having three pinnate divisions proceeding from a common petiole.

= tripinnatifid adj.

Of a sponge spicule: widely ternate.

(of a leaf) having seven leaflets growing from a common point; cf. septenate, adj.

Doubly or subordinately palmate: applied to compound leaves having a palmate arrangement on secondary petioles which are themselves palmately…

(of a leaf) lobed in a pinnate manner, with the notches extending less than half way to the midrib.

Of a leaf: having seven leaflets growing from a common point; = septenate, adj.

Forming lobes.

Cut into three lobes, the divisions extending to the midrib.

in same sense.

= trijugous adj.

Botany. Of a pinnate leaf: Having leaflets in pairs; usually in combination (see bi-, prefix, multi-, comb._form, tri-, comb._form, unijugate adj.)…

= pinnulate, adj.

Of a leaf: Divided into three lobes quite to the base, but not articulated so as to form separate leaflets.

(a) Zoology having three digits (fingers or toes); (b) Botany digitate with three leaflets, ternate.

Botany. = trijugate adj. at tri-, comb._form affix 1a(a).