pinna
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The researchers call transients Orcinus rectipinnus, noting that, in Latin, “recti means right or upright, and pinna means fin, feather, or wing, most likely referring to the tall erect dorsal fin of males.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
Without the malleus and incus, the vibrations of the pinna would not be able to reach the stapes and then be sent to the cochlea.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Without the malleus and incus, sound waves would not be collected by the pinna.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The leaflet, or pinna, of the glade fern is quite coarse and contrasts strikingly with its wispier neighbor.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2015
“And after all, didn’t somebody just make up the word pinna, too?”
From "Frindle" by Andrew Clements
Their ear flaps, or pinnae, can independently rotate forward, backward, and sideways to zero in on a sound’s location.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 2, 2024
Researchers have found a new protozoan, Haplosporidium pinnae, in dead and dying mussels.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 17, 2021
Carella says bacterial infections are having a greater impact than the parasite in Italy as well as Greece and Croatia, noting that H. pinnae was absent when she first described the disease in Italy.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 17, 2021
Their pinnae are strongly reduced: essentially just being a slim semicircle of tissue concealed by pelage.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 13, 2014
Finally, in the pinnae of the frond the centrifugal xylem may disappear, the protoxylem being now exarch in position and abutting on the phloem.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
The weight of these pinnas may be increased nearly a third, by dipping them while red hot into water.
When they design to make many pinnas, or spongy lumps of various weights, these are divided from each other by thin beds or layers of earth, which hinder them from uniting.
The seuenth a pinnas called Frisland, of burden about seuenty tuns.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt
I confess, though the possibility of the pearl increasing in size and loveliness was obvious, that the fact that pinnas are subject to ills, chances, and mishaps, was also recognised.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
And Cratinus also speaks of the pinna in his Archilochi— She indeed like pinnas and sea oysters.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
