pinna

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From Latin pinna (“dorsal fin; wing, feather”). Doublet of pen, penna, and panne.

The naker--by the Greeks called Pinna--has a kind of confederacy with the prawn for procuring food. — Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth, Marcus Tullius Cicero
There was the same shortening of the pinna, the same broad curve of the upper lobe, the same convolution of the inner cartilage. — The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

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