Along the Mediterranean were several places where they manufactured pinna thread.
2
From the pinna, silk of a peculiar quality is obtained.
3
The conducting of the sound has scarcely been affected by the loss of the pinna.
4
The right pinna was entire, and the upper half of the left pinna had disappeared.
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A drop of moisture was smeared on the pinna.
1
Stem and branches pinnate or bipinnate, the pinnae and pinnules alternate.
2
When disturbed, the pinnules of the arms first contract, the arms straighten themselves out, and the whole gradually and slowly closes up.
3
Colour bright brown, rachis shining, very dark brown; polypidom about six inches high, simply pinnulate, pinnules about half an inch; thickly and regularly disposed, alternate.