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Pinnate vs Innate - What's the difference?

pinnate | innate |

In botany terms the difference between pinnate and innate

is that pinnate is having two rows of branches, lobes, leaflets, or veins arranged on each side of a common axis while innate is joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.

As adjectives the difference between pinnate and innate

is that pinnate is resembling a feather while innate is inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

As a verb innate is

to cause to exist; to call into being.

pinnate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resembling a feather.
  • (botany) Having two rows of branches, lobes, leaflets, or veins arranged on each side of a common axis
  • Mimosa is a tree with pinnate leaves.
    The trunk is unbranched, often much shortened, and bears a crown of feathery or pinnate fronds.
  • (zoology) Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck.
  • the pinnate grouse, or prairie chicken

    Synonyms

    * pinnated

    See also

    * pinnately * palmate

    Derived terms

    {{der3, abruptly-pinnate , bipinnate , even-pinnate , imparipinnate , multipinnate , odd-pinnate , paripinnate , pluripinnate , tripinnate , tripinnated}} ----

    innate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.
  • Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See a priori, intuitive.
  • * South
  • There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil.
  • * John Locke
  • how men may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions
  • (botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.
  • (Gray)

    Usage notes

    * Nouns often used with "innate": knowledge, idea, immunity, etc.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * innateness

    Verb

  • To cause to exist; to call into being.
  • References

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    Anagrams

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