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pennate ‎(not comparable)

(sciences) Having a feather-like shape
- 2008 November 26, Adrian Marchetti et al., “Ferritin is used for iron storage in bloom-forming marine pennate diatoms”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7228, DOI:10.1038/nature07539:
  Addition of iron to surface waters in these areas induces massive phytoplankton blooms dominated primarily by pennate diatoms.

pennate f pl

pennāte