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What does pennate mean?

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Adjective
  1. (sciences) Having a feather-like shape
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Among the diatoms, there was a greater loss of pennate than centric diatoms.
In the slender legs of arthropods, with insufficient space for bulky muscles or long lever arms, many of the muscles are pennate.
Tissue-level concentrations of hydrophilic and lipophilic extracts caused high levels of mortality in a sympatric pennate diatom.
Plants of this species are in most cases rather regularly and densly pennate.
Diatoms are photosynthetic protists, which are classified into centric and pennate diatoms, according to whether they have a radial or bilateral symmetry.
The adductor muscles of the shells of clams are parallel, but most of the leg muscles of arthropods are pennate.

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