Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, three times ternate: applied to a leaf whose petiole divides and twice subdivides into three, thus bearing twenty-seven leaflets, as in some Umbelliferæ. Also
triplicate-ternate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Three times ternate; -- applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leafiets.
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- adjective botany Three times
ternate ; applied to aleaf whosepetiole separates into threebranches , each of which divides into three parts which each bear threeleaflets .
Etymologies
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tri- + ternate
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The leaves are triternate, divisions deeply cut and acute; the leaves of the involucrum are stalked, trifid, and deeply cut.
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