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Trifoliate

TRIFO'LIATE

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Adj.
[L. tres, three, and folium, leaf.] Having three leaves.

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trifoliate

trifoliate

English

Adjective

trifoliate (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly botany)[1]Having or comprising three leaves, or (loosely) trifoliolate (with three leaflets)[2] or having leaves with three parts, as the clover plant.[1]
  2. Comprising, abounding with, or featuring trefoils.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 “trifoliate, a.]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
  2. Beentje 2010, The Kew Plant Glossary

Latin

Adjective

trifoliāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of trifoliātus