Adjective : a pinnate branch; pinnate trees. From Dictionary.com.
1 The Illinois species is that known as pinnated grouse (Tympanuchus americanus). From Wordnik.com. [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference
Trees with that kind of pinnated foliage seem to be later than others. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
Perhaps they were "Prairie hens" (pinnated grouse). From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
The tree is tall and large, and the pinnated leaves very long. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
Also a new DODONOEA, with very narrow, linear, pinnated leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
HIRTELLA of Miquel, a hairy shrub with pinnated leaves; EVOLVULUS. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
Laws have been made for the protection of the pinnated grouse, or prairie chicken, and others of their tribe. From Wordnik.com. [Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State] Reference
The tree is graceful and pretty, with a tuft of large pinnated leaves at the top, and nestled cosily in their midst are the clusters of fruit. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
Persia or the North of China, and the long pinnated leaves seem to mark its Oriental origin; but it has taken very kindly to its European home. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference
Though slow in growth, it shoots up a magnificent stem, to the height sometimes of eighty feet, the summit of which is covered with a graceful crown of pinnated leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
“Mpávo,” or bark slabs, are fitted in between the double posts; when coolness is required, their place is taken by mats woven with the pinnated leaves of sundry palms. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
It should give the sage grouse, pinnated grouse and all shore birds. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
The sumach, with its long, pinnated leaf, is of a brilliant scarlet. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
In a short time the pinnated grouse can be added to the list of has-beens. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
This is what causes the great diminution of the numbers of pinnated grouse. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
A new species of Calabash, (Crescentia) with pinnated leaves is very common. From Wordnik.com. [Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English] Reference
This fpecies has pinnated leaves, which grow oppofite by pairs at the joints. From Wordnik.com. [Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise] Reference
These palms with pinnated and thorny leaves formed a pleasing contrast to the fern-trees. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
On the other hand, a red marine alga, with finely pinnated fronds, was strongly affected. From Wordnik.com. [Insectivorous Plants] Reference
They had large pinnated leaves, and the cabbage is, properly speaking, the bad of the tree. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries] Reference
Their assemblages greatly surpass in numbers those of the pinnated grouse already described. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
Many appeals have been made in behalf of the pinnated grouse; but the open seasons continue. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
For example, the pinnated grouse and sharp-tailed grouse are more plentiful than in 15 years. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
The common kind is known to have small pinnated leaves growing on stalks imperfectly ligneous. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference
From Ohio to the great plains, the pinnated grouse could be made far more common than crows and blackbirds. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
The pinnated grouse, sage grouse, Bob White quail and ptarmigan exercise but little keen reason in self-protection. From Wordnik.com. [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference
Ivory-billed woodpecker, sandhill crane, whooping crane, pinnated grouse, American and snowy egret where unprotected. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
Even the pinnated grouse could be successfully introduced over one-third of the state, if the people would have it so. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
The prairie hen, or pinnated grouse, is also very numerous, but in these situations is shy, and difficult to be procured. From Wordnik.com. [Townsend Chapter 1] Reference
Evidently, Manitoba is tired of having ducks, ruffed grouse, pinnated and other grouse pestering her farmers and laborers. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
The pinnated leaves of the palms were conspicuous on the azure sky, the clearness of which was unsullied by any trace of vapour. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
The openings in the forest appeared like vast funnels, in which we could distinguish by their elegant forms and pinnated leaves, the. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
On reviewing the different tribes of indigenous plants, we regret not finding trees with small pinnated leaves, and arborescent gramina. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
Its trunk, armed with thorns, is more than sixty feet high; its leaves are pinnated, very thin, undulated, and frizzled towards the points. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
The openings in the forest appeared like vast funnels, in which we could distinguish by their elegant forms and pinnated leaves, the Praga and Irasse palms. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
They are of the same genus with the cocoa-nut tree; like it they have large pinnated leaves, and are the same as the second sort found in the northern parts of New South Wales. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14] Reference
Thefe leaves are pinnated; and a va« riety is occafioncd by them; for the folioles of forne forts are indented at their edges, whilft others are found with their edges entire. From Wordnik.com. [Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise] Reference
The greater prairie chicken, Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus, a dumpy-looking bird, has been known by many names: prairie chicken, pinnated grouse, boomer, prairie grouse, heath hen. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
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