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odd-pinnate

British  

adjective

  1. (of a plant leaf) pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex

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Botanical Description.—A tree, with leaves alternate, odd-pinnate, without stipules, bunched on the ends of the branches, with opposite, serrate leaflets.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

Botanical Description.—A tree 4–5 meters high with odd-pinnate leaves.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

Pod linear, flat, several seeded, 2-valved.—Hoary perennial herbs, with odd-pinnate leaves, and white or purplish racemed flowers.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Botanical Description.—A tree 30–40 meters high, with leaves alternate, odd-pinnate; leaflets opposite, coriaceous.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

Large trees to shrubs, with alternate, odd-pinnate leaves.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)