Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, three-nerved; having three nerves extending from the base to the apex: as, a trinervate leaf.
- In entomology, having three nerves, nervures, or veins, as an insect's wing; trinerved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex; -- said of a leaf.
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- adjective botany, of a leaf Having three
ribs ornerves extendingunbranched from thebase to theapex .
Etymologies
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Latin trinervatus; prefix tri- + Latin nervus nerve.
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