pinnate

1. 1.

   (of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each side of a common axis

   Synonymspinnated

   Similarcompound

Other forms of pinnate

comparative

pinnater·

superlative

pinnatest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pinnate

What does pinnate mean?

pinnate means "(of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each side of a common axis".

How many syllables are in pinnate?

pinnate has 2 syllables: pin-nate. The stress falls on "pin".

What is another word for pinnate?

Close synonyms include pinnated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pinnate a common word?

pinnate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.