pin|nule

pin|nule
pin|nule «PIHN yool», noun.
1. Zoology. a part or organ resembling a small wing or fin, or a barb of a feather: a) a small, finlike appendage or short, detached fin ray in certain fishes, as the mackerel. b) each of the lateral branches of the arms in crinoids.
2. Botany. one of the secondary or ultimate divisions of a pinnate leaf, especially in ferns; a subdivision of a pinna.
[< Latin pinnula pinnula]

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