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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having three leaflets, as a leaf of clover.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, having three leaflets: more commonly trifoliate.

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

  • adjective (Bot.) Having three leaflets.

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

  • adjective botany Having three leaflets.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of a leaf shape) having three leaflets

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tri- +‎ foliolate

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