pinniform
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin pinna (“feather, fin”) + -form.
Adjective
editpinniform (comparative more pinniform, superlative most pinniform)
- Shaped like a fin or feather.
- 1752, John Hill, A General Natural History:
- The Blennius , with pinniform and bifid cirri under the throat , and with transverse areolæ on the back
References
edit- “pinniform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.