pennatedadj.

1727 P. Blair Pharmaco-botanologia iv. 175 The Leaves upon the Stalks..are whitish, hoary or downy, pennated, and deep divided.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II A Pennated Leaf..or feather Leaf,..in which the Parts of which the Leaf is compos'd, are set along the middle Rib; either alternately or by Pairs, as in..Vetches, &c.

1758 Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 441 Attempting to improve the art of painting or staining linens and cottons of a fine durable black colour, by making use of the juice of the Carolina pennated Toxicodendron.

1802 F. W. Blagdon tr. P. S. Pallas Trav. Southern Provinces Russ. Empire I. 538 The stalk branches out with pennated leaves.

1898 Harper's Mag. Apr. 775/2 Tall cocoanut-palms, reflecting streaks of silvery light from their pennated leaves like flashing bayonets.

1764 Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 434 The upper part of this animal is covered over with circular cells,..from whence proceed Polype-like suckers, having eight pennated arms or claws.

1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 267 Antennæ pennated in the males: serrated in the females.

1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 593/2 Some appearance of a pennated muscle.

1873 Amer. Cycl. II. 705/1 He divides the water birds into orders:..VIII., with pennated feet (coots and grebes), with 4 genera and 29 species.

1989 Anat. Anzeiger 168 378 Growth of the muscle belly of this pennated muscle is preponderantly by hypertrophy of preexisting muscle fibres.

2004 Jrnl. Hand Surg. 29 689 These muscles are highly pennated with relativey short fibers and a high pennation angle.

a1845 T. Hood Ode to Perry in J. Parton Humorous Poet. Eng. Lang. (1856) 430 Perry, whose fame, pennated, is let loose to distant lands.

1994 A. Theroux Primary Colors 256 Flocks of birds with all sorts of pennated variations of pink and scarlet and red, like the rare flamingo..the summer tanager..the scarlet ibis, and the male cardinal.