Usually means: Muscles with feather-like arrangement.
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  1. pennate: Merriam-Webster
  2. pennate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pennate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pennate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pennate: Vocabulary.com
  6. pennate: Wordnik
  7. pennate: Wiktionary
  8. pennate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pennate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. pennate: Dictionary.com
  11. Pennate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. pennate: Rhymezone
  13. Pennate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. pennate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. pennate: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pennate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. pennate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. pennate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pennate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pennate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. -pennate, pennate: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pennate)

▸ adjective:  (sciences) Having a feather-like shape
▸ noun:  (anatomy) A penniform muscle

Similar:
feathered, pennated, penninerved, bipenniform, pennatifid, unipennate, pinnate, pennoned, longipennate, semipenniform, more...

Opposite:
unipennate, bipennate, multipennate

Types:
teres, rectus, vastus, sartorius, gracilis, semimembranosus, semitendinosus, biceps femoris, more...

Phrases:
Pennate muscle, more...

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Similar:
feathered, pennated, penninerved, bipenniform, pennatifid, unipennate, pinnate, pennoned, longipennate, semipenniform, more...

Opposite:
unipennate, bipennate, multipennate

Types:
teres, rectus, vastus, sartorius, gracilis, semimembranosus, semitendinosus, biceps femoris, more...

Phrases:
Pennate muscle, more...



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