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Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; as, inborn passions. Cowper.

Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth. "Inbred sentiments." Burke.

Native; inherent; innate. Joy and hope are emotions indigenous to the human mind. I. Taylor.

Inherent; innate; indwelling. Boyle.

Generated within; inborn; innate; as, ingenerate powers of body. W. Wotton. Those virtues were rather feigned and affected . . . than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment. Bacon.

Innate; inborn; inbred; inherent; native; ingenerate. [Obs.] It is naturalor ingenite, which comes by some defect of the organs and overmuch brain. Burton.

The state of inhering; permanent existence in something; innateness; inseparable and essential connection. Jer. Taylor.

nently existing in something; inseparably attached or connected; naturally pertaining to; innate; inalienable; as, polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty, and protection. "A most inherent baseness." Shak. The sore disease which seems inherent in civilization. Southey.…

etry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf.

With breaks or interruptions; discontinuously. Interruptedly pinnate (Bot.), pinnate with small leaflets intermixed with large ones. Gray.

An East Indian palm (Caryota urens) having leaves pinnate with wedge-shaped divisions, the petiole very stout. It is the principal source of jaggery, and is often cultivated for ornament.

A pair of the opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant.

Kentucky coffee tree (Bot.), a tall North American tree (Gymnocladus Canadensis) with bipinnate leaves. It produces large woody pods containing a few seeds which have been used as a substitute for coffee. The timber is a very valuable.

the Pyrus (Sorbus) Americana, producing beautiful bunches of red berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its flowers white, growing in fragrant clusters. The European species is the P. aucuparia, or rowan tree. -- Mountain barometer, a portable barometer, adapted for safe transportation, used in measuring the heights of…

The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation.

al, or royal fern (Osmunda regalis), which grows in wet or boggy places, and has large bipinnate fronds, often with a panicle of capsules at the top. The rootstock contains much starch, and has been used in stiffening linen.

A combining form signifying equal; as, paridigitate, paripinnate.

Same as Pinnate.

Pinnately veined or nerved.

A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.