feather-veined

[feth-er-veynd]

feath·er-veined

[feth-er-veynd]
adjective Botany.
(of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.

Origin:
1860–65
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Feather-veined is always a great word to know.
So is alternation of generations. Does it mean:
variation in an organism's life cycle of dissimilar reproductive forms
form of a diploid plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores
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feather-veined
 
adj
(of a leaf) having a network of veins branching from the midrib to the margin

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