Hi Jeff i'm sure you are right, in fact Munier talks of 4 "pennate" (1 pennata is a full downstroke and upstroke) for a quarter note. From Wordnik.com. [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference
Last year, Siver discovered a new genus of diatom (he has discovered 60 new species over the past 20 years) that sheds light on the origin of the "raphe" -- a slit that appears along the long axis of pennate diatoms. From Wordnik.com. [TreeHugger] Reference
This is seen specially in the hamstrings, which from the great distance of their origin, and the purely longitudinal direction of their fibres, retract to a very great extent, much more than the anterior muscles can do from the pennate direction of their fibres, and the manner in which they are mutually bound down to each other and to the bone. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
8 "pennate" for a half note and 16 for the whole note. From Wordnik.com. [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference
Dr. Mantell concludes that the islands of New Zealand were densely peopled at a period geologically recent, though historically remote, by tribes of gigantic brevi-pennate birds allied to the ostrich tribe, all, or almost all, of species and genera now extinct; and that, subsequently to the formation of the most ancient ornithic deposit, the sea-coast has been elevated from fifty to one hundred feet above its original level; hence the terraces of shingle and loam which now skirt the maritime districts. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference
"… We show that a change in timing of spring plankton events in warm years led to the paradox of lower mean water temperatures during the growth period, favouring cold-adapted diatoms over cyanobacteria, and within the diatoms, some cold-adapted centric forms over pennate forms. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
Pennaceous: = pennate. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
During a pennate run?. From Wordnik.com. [MVN] Reference
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