noun. 
                    In anat. and zoöl.:
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A feather. See penna.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A bird's wing. See pinion.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A fish's fin: the usual technical name.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    Some wing-like or fin-like part or organ, as the flipper of a seal or cetacean.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    The outer ear, which projects from the head; the auricle, or pavilion of the ear. See cut under ear.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    The nostril, or wing of the nose.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    One of the smaller branches of some polyps, as plumularians.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    In entomology, a small oblique ridge forming one of the lines of a pinnate surface. See pinnate.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    In botany, one of the primary divisions of a pinnate leaf: applied most commonly to ferns.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    the alæ nasi; the nostrils.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A genus of bivalves, typical of the family Pinnidæ.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    [l. c] A bivalve mollusk of the genus Pinna.