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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Arranged in three ranks, rows, or series; in botany, facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks; tristichous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks, as the leaves of veratrum.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks, like the leaves of veratrum.

Etymologies

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Latin trifarius of three sorts or ways, threefold. Compare bifarious.

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