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odd-pinnate

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adjective

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

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Leaves quite regularly twice odd-pinnate; leaflets about 1 in. long; juice not milky; fruit rounded berries in large clusters; plant not prickly; branchlets not heavy-tipped 15. Melia. r.

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

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

Botanical Description.—A tree, 18° high, with leaves opposite, odd-pinnate.

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

Pod oblong, longer than the calyx, 1–2-seeded, roughened, tardily dehiscent.—Shrubs, with odd-pinnate leaves; the leaflets marked with minute dots, usually stipellate, the midvein excurrent.

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

Leaves odd-pinnate, the ovate or oblong leaflets stipellate.

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