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, sound waves would not be collected by the pinna.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
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
The leaflet, or pinna, of the glade fern is quite coarse and contrasts strikingly with its wispier neighbor.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2015
But I guess that if the Latin word for feather had been frindilus instead of pinna, then you probably would have invented the word pen instead.
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
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
Researchers have found a new protozoan, Haplosporidium pinnae, in dead and dying mussels.
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
The rachis of the stem is divided into distinct internodes, from each of which are given off two pinnae, and upon which are also placed usually six cells, three on either side.
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
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.
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 Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
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 Hakluyt, Richard
