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*tetrag'onum; four-kneed, or cornered. 

 *tetran'drum; tetrandrous, i.e. four-stamened. 

 *tetrasper'ma ; four-seeded, 

 thapsifor'me ; thapsus-like. See Verbascum Thapsus. 

 thyrsiflo'ra ; thyrsus-flowered, i.e. having the kind of 

 inflorescence called in botany by that name. It is 

 represented in the flower-bunches of the Lilac, where 

 the flower-stalks in the middle of a dense panicle 

 (see paniculatus) are longer than those at the 

 extremities. The meaning of thyrsus in Latin is 

 the stem of a plant, and it was used to signify a staff 

 entwined with Ivy and Vine-shoots carried about at 

 the feasts of Bacchus, 

 tincto'ria; used as dye-stuff. 



tormina'lis; useful for tormina, gripes or colic; applied 

 to the wild Service-tree (Sorbus), the fruit of which 

 was used formerly for complaints of the bowels, 

 and generally supposed by Gerard and others to be 

 the Sorbus torminalis of Pliny, 

 tomento'sus ; tomentose, i. e. covered with an entangled 

 cottony down; tomentum means stuffing for cushions. 

 *trach3^od'on ; throat-toothed; ahorse-tail (Equisetum), to 

 which the name is given, being remarkable for the 

 teeth of its sheaths, 

 trem'ula ; shaking, quaking, tremulous. 

 *trian'drum; triandrous, i.e. three-stamened. 

 * trichoi'des ; hair-like, 

 tri'color ; three-coloured, 

 tricor'ne ; three-horned. 

 *tridactylites; three-fingered, alluding to the divisions of 

 the leaves of the little Saxifrage to which the name 

 is given, 

 tridenta'tus ; three -toothed, 

 tri'fidus ; thrice-cut. 



