pinniform
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin pinna (“feather, fin”) + -form.
Adjective[edit]
pinniform (comparative more pinniform, superlative most pinniform)
- Shaped like a fin or feather.
- 1752, John Hill, A General Natural History:
- The Blennius , with pinniform and bifid cirri under the throat , and with transverse areolæ on the back
References[edit]
- “pinniform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.