Triternate

[trai'tә:neit]

Definition

(a.) 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.

Typist: Richard

Definition

adj. thrice ternate—of a ternate leaf in which each division is divided into three parts and each of these into three leaflets thus making twenty-seven as in some Umbellifer:—Also Trip′licate-ter′nate.

Edited by Everett