Pinnules is an English word. Below you'll find 2 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Pinnules in a sentence
Pinnules meaning
plural of pinnule
Using Pinnules
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of pinnule
Context around Pinnules
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 0 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pinnules
- In this selection, "pinnules" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include known as pinnules and to the pinnules of a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pinnules" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pinnules
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In stony corals these are cylindrical and taper to a point, but in soft corals they are pinnate with side branches known as pinnules. (24 words)
The fossil echinoderms had ambulacral grooves extending down the side of the body, fringed on either side by brachioles, structures very similar to the pinnules of a modern crinoid. (29 words)
The fossil echinoderms had ambulacral grooves extending down the side of the body, fringed on either side by brachioles, structures very similar to the pinnules of a modern crinoid. (29 words)
In stony corals these are cylindrical and taper to a point, but in soft corals they are pinnate with side branches known as pinnules. (24 words)
Example sentences (2)
In stony corals these are cylindrical and taper to a point, but in soft corals they are pinnate with side branches known as pinnules.
The fossil echinoderms had ambulacral grooves extending down the side of the body, fringed on either side by brachioles, structures very similar to the pinnules of a modern crinoid.