Word Meanings - IMPARIPINNATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet.

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• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• SINGLE-ACTING
  Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
• SINGLE-HANDED
  Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
• PINNATELY
  In a pinnate manner.
• SINGLE-HEARTED
  Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv.
• SINGLE-MINDED
  Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single- hearted.
• SINGLENESS
  1. The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity. 2. Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity;
• SINGLES
  See 2
• SINGLET
  An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet.
• TERMINALIA
  A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries.
• LEAFLET
  One of the divisions of a compound leaf; a foliole. (more info) 1. A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract.
• SINGLETON
  In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.
• PINNATE; PINNATED
  Consisting of several leaflets, or separate portions, arranged on each side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush, a hickory, or an ash. See Abruptly pinnate, and Illust., under Abruptly.
• SINGLESTICK
  In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword. The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling.
• SINGLE-FOOT
  An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also single-footed pace. See Single, v. i. Single-foot is an irregular pace, rather rare, distinguished by the posterior extremities moving in the order of a fast walk, and the anterior extremities in that
• SINGLE TAX
  A tax levied upon land alone, irrespective of improvements, -- advocated by certain economists as the sole source of public revenue. Whatever may be thought of Henry George's single-tax theory as a whole, there can be little question that
• TERMINAL
  Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike. Terminal moraine. See the Note under Moraine. -- Terminal statue. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3. -- Terminal velocity. The velocity acquired at the end of a
• SINGLE-SURFACED
  Having one surface; -- said specif. of aëroplanes or aërocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side.
• SINGLETREE
  The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree. Note: When two horses draw abreast, a singletree is fixed at each end of another crosspiece, called the doubletree.
• SINGLE
  simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See Simple, and cf. 1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions
• PARIPINNATE
  Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.
• IMPARIPINNATE
  Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet.
• CONTERMINAL
  Conterminous.
• TRIPINNATE
  Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rhachis.