pinnule in a sentence
Examples
- It is frequently grown as an ornamental greenhouse or house plant, and is favored for its unusually large pinnules.
- Like other sea lilies, it produces gametes in specialised areas of the pinnules and releases them into the sea.
- Both of these sets of nerves are sensory in nature, with the lower set supplying the pinnules and tube feet.
- Leaves are bipinnately compound, downy, with 3-9 pairs of pinnae and 10-30 pairs of pinnules.
- The oral surface with the mouth is facing upwards and is surrounded by five, often divided rays with feathery pinnules.
- The leafy structures that grow from the stipe are known as " pinnae " and are often again divided into smaller pinnules.
- It was traditionally believed that the ovules were borne directly on the fronds, replacing one of the pinnules on the ultimate pinnae.
- The five radial canals run into the arms and branch several times to supply all of the individual branches and pinnules lining the arms.
- Every pinnule has up to six pairs of petioles are dark-purplish, hence the name'purpurascens'meaning'becoming purple '.
- The arms are jointed, and lined by smaller feather-like appendages, or " pinnules ", which also include tube feet.