"Pinnate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... spreading, Oriental tree, with pinnate leaves and showy racemes of yellow flowers variegated with red. What does ...
— Selections From Poe • J. Montgomery Gambrill
... top is a splendid head of leaves like gigantic ostrich plumes, that gracefully curve over on all sides, forming a shape like a parachute. Each leaf is full five yards in length, and of the kind called pinnate—that is divided into numerous leaflets, each of which is itself more than a foot and a half long, shaped like the blade of a rapier. Under the shadow of this graceful plumage the fruit is produced, just below the point where the leaves radiate from ...
— Ran Away to Sea • Mayne Reid |
