Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PIN'NA-TI-FID
PIN'NATE, or PIN'NA-TEDPIN'NA-TI-PED
PIN'NA-TI-FID, a. [L. pinna, a feather, and findo, to cleave.]
In botany, feather-cleft. A pinnatifid leaf is a species of simple leaf, divided transversely by oblong horizontal segments or jags, not extending to the mid rib. – Martyn.
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