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from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, noting a leaf in which two prominent nerves emerge from the middle one a little above its base.
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Its lance-shaped, acutely pointed, triple-nerved leaves are rough, and the lower ones saw-edged.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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