Trimeristele 



Triploidity 



stele (+ Mkristele), a stele formed 

 of three members (Brebuer) ; adj. 

 trimeriste'lic ; tri'merous, -rtis 

 {fi€pos, a part), in threes, three 

 membered parts. 

 trimes'tris (Lat., of three months), 

 lasting three months, or maturing 

 in that time, as Lavatera trimesiris, 

 Linn. 

 Trimonoe^cism [rpi, three + Monoe- 

 cism), having male, female, and 

 perfect flowers on the same plant ; 

 monoecious, but existing in trimor- 

 phous condition ; trimor'phic, tri- 

 mor'phous {iJ.op<pr], shape), occurring 

 under three forms, of stamens and 

 styles, long, short, and intermedi- 

 ate ; Trimor'phism, heterogony, with 

 long-, short-, and mid-styled flowers. 

 trismus (Lat. ), lasting three years. 

 triner'vate, trinerva'tus, trinerved', 

 triner'vis, triner'vius {tri, three : 

 nervus, a nerve), three-nerved ; 

 trinervula'tus (Lat.), with three 

 nerve-like strands in the placenta ; 

 trinoMal {nodus, a knot), with 

 three nodes or joints ; Trioe'cia 

 {oJkos, a house), a Linnean order of 

 plants with trioecious flowers ; 

 trioe'cious, with staminate, pistil- 

 late, and hermaphrodite flowers on 

 three distinct plants ; Trioe'cism, 

 or trioe'cious Polyg'amy, some in- 

 dividuals hermaphrodite, others 

 male, and still others female, as 

 in the ash, Fraxinu", ; trioe'- 

 ciously hermaph'rodite = trimor- 

 PHic; trioi'cous, -cus, the mode of 

 spelling preferred by bryologists for 

 trioecious; trioper'culate, triopercu- 

 la'tus (+ Operculum), having three 

 lids ; triov'ulate, triovula'tut' ( + v u - 

 lum), with three ovules ; tripaleola'- 

 tus (-f Palea), consisting of three 

 paleae, as the flowers of bamboo ; 

 tripar'ted {partitus, cleft), parted 

 to the base in three divisions ; 

 tripar'tible {partibilis, divisible), 

 tending to split into three parts. 

 tripar'tite {triparti'tus, three-fold), 



divided into three parts. 

 tripen'nate, tripenna' tus {tri, three; 

 penva, a feather), = tripinnate ; 



tripet'aloid, tripetaloi'deus {ireraXov, 

 a flower-leaf; e'tSos, resemblance), as 

 if three-petalled ; tripet'alous, -lus, 

 having three petals. 



triphylet'ic {rpi-, three ; (pvAeriKhs, 

 tribal), used of hybrids contain- 

 ing the blended strains of three 

 species; Triphyriome {<pv\\ov, a 

 leaf), hypothetically three segments 

 to form a carpel, two hypophylls, 

 superior and fertile, the third sterile 

 and inferior (Pasquale) ; triphyl'- 

 lous, -lus, three-leaved ; tripin'nate, 

 tripinnatus (-f Pinna), thrice pin- 

 nate ; tripinnat'ifid, tripinnatif'idus 

 {fid, from findo, I cleave), thrice 

 pinnatifid ; tripinnat'isect {sectus, 

 cut), thrice pinnatisect. 



Trip'lasy {triplasius, threefold), the 

 division of an organ into three 

 analogous structures (Fermond). 



Trip'le Fu'sion, a suggested emenda- 

 tion of the term Double Fertili- 

 zation ; '-' nerved, --' ribbed, '- 

 veined {tripl^'x, threefold), with a 

 midrib dividing into three, or send- 

 ing off" a strong branch on each side 

 above the base of the blade ; trip'- 

 lex, triple ; triplicate, triplica'tus 

 (Lat.), in a triple manner, as trip- 

 lica'to-gemina'tus, tergeminate ; — 

 -nerva'tus, triplinerved; '-' -pinna'- 

 tus, tripinnate ; trip'licate-ter'nate, 

 triternate (Crozier) ; trip'liciter 

 (Lat.), thrice repeated ; triplicos'tate 

 {cosfatus, ribbed), having three ribs, 

 triple-ribbed ; tripliform''is {forma, 

 sheiipe),a.3trip''/o7vn'ia Fo' Ha, *'\ea.ye8 

 resembling the triple-leaved form " 

 (Lindley) ; triplinerved', tripli- 

 ner'vis, -vius {nervus, a nerve), see 



THII'LE-NERVEl), etc. 



trip'lo-caules'cent {triplus, triple - 

 caulescent), when a plant has a 

 third (tertiary) system of axes ; 

 triplocau'lous (+ Caulis) possess- 

 ing ternary axes (Pax) ; trip'loid 

 {dSos, resemblance), applied to a 

 nucleus having half as many again 

 chromosomes as a diploid nucltus ; 

 as by the union of a ha}iloid and 

 a dijploid germ ; Triploi'dity, the 

 condition described. 



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