unipennate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of, pertaining to, or having the nature of a muscle, the parallel fibres of which attach to a tendon at an acute angle (as a feather that is barbed on one side).

Word forms

unipennate

Etymology

From uni- + pennate.

Related words

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