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Biternate

Having ternate leaves, each division of which is itself ternate

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    Having ternate leaves, each division of which is itself ternate

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triternate(botany) Three times ternate; applied to a leaf dividedvintovthree stalks, each with three leaflets that divide into three lobes
ternatenounAn island of Maluku, Indonesia.
tripennate(botany) Alternative form of tripinnate. [(botany) Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rachis.]
bipennatenoun(medicine, anatomy, zoology) Of, pertaining to, or having the nature of a muscle, the fibres of which attach to a tendon on two sides (as a feather barbed on both sides).
tripinnatenoun(botany) Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rachis.
tergeminate(botany, now rare) Having three pairs of leaflets.
bipartitenounHaving two parts (two principal or main parts).
tripinnatedAlternative form of tripinnate. [(botany) Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rachis.]
trinerved(botany) trinervate
trinervate(botany, of a leaf) Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex.
binous(botany) binate
binate(botany) Double; growing in pairs or couples.
tetragonous(chiefly botany) tetragonal
trifoliated(botany) Having three leaves or leaflets; trifoliate.
tridentatenoun(chemistry, of a ligand) Capable of attaching to a metal ion at three points
bipinnatenoun(botany, of a leaf) Doubly pinnate; pinnate and having leaflets that are themselves pinnate.
tripinnatifid(botany) triply pinnately cleft; said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid.
bifoliatenoun(botany) Having exactly two leaves.
ditrichotomous(botany) Dividing into double or treble ramifications; said of a leaf or stem.
pedatenoun(botany, of a leaf) Having deeply divided lobes.

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