trioecious 



triternate 



(okos, a house), a Linnean order of 

 plants with trioecious flowers ; 

 trioe'cious, with staminate, pistil- 

 late, and hermaphrodite flowers on 

 three distinct plants ; trioe'ciously 

 hermaph'rodite = TRIMORPHIC ; 

 trioi'cous, -CMS, the mode of spelling 

 preferred by bryologists ; trioper'- 

 culate, triopercula'tus (+ OPER- 

 CULUM), having three lids ; triov'- 

 ulate, triovula'tus (+ OVULUM), 

 with three ovules ; tripaleola'tus 

 (+ 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. 



tripartite (triparti'tus, three-fold), 

 divided into three parts. 



tripen'nate, tripenna'tus (tri, three, 

 penna, a feather), = tripinnate ; 

 tripet'aloid, tripetaloi' deus (TreraXov, 

 a flower-leaf, eldos, resemblance), as 

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

 having three petals ; Tripnyllome 

 (<j)6\\ov, a leaf), hypothetically 

 three segments to form a carpel, 

 two hypophylls, superior and fer- 

 tile, the third sterile and inferior 

 (Pasquale) ; triphyl'lous, -lus, three- 

 leaved ; tripin'nate, tripinnaftus 

 (+ PINNA), thrice pinnate ; tri- 

 pinnat'ifid, tripinnatif'idus (fid, 

 from findo, I cleave), thrice 

 pinnatifid ; tripinnat'isect (sectus, 

 cut), thrice pinnatisect. 



triphylet'ic (rpi, three, <pv\Tiicbs, 

 tribal), used of hybrids contain- 

 ing the blended strains of three 

 species. 



Triplasy (triplasius, threefold), the 

 division of an organ into three 

 analogous structures (Fermond). 



triple-nerved, ~ ribbed, ~ veined 

 (triplex, threefold), with a midrib 

 dividing into three, or sending off 

 a strong branch on each side above 

 the base of the blade ; triplex, 

 triple ; triplicate, tripllca'tus 

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

 lica'to -gemina'tus, = tergemin- 

 ate; ~ -nerva'tus, = triplinerved ; 



<~ -pinna'tus, = tripinnate ; tripli- 

 cate-ter'nate, = triternate (Crozier) ; 

 triplici-ter (Lat.), thrice repeated ; 

 triplicos'tate (costatus, ribbed), 

 having three ribs, triple-ribbed ; 

 tripliform'is (forma, shape), as 

 tripliform'ia Fo'lia, "leaves re- 

 sembling the triple-leaved form " 

 (Lindley) ; triplinerved', tripli- 

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



TRIPLE-NERVED, etc. 



triplo-caules'cent (triplus, triple + 

 CAULESCENT), when a plant has a 

 third (tertiary) system of axes ; 

 triplus (Lat.), threefold ; triplo- 

 caulous (+ CAULIS), possessing 

 ternary axes (Pax). 



trip'terous, -rus (rpt, three, irre/)6v, 

 a wing), three-winged. 



trique'ter, trique'trous, triqite'trus 

 (Lat., three-cornered), three-edged, 

 with three salient angles. 



triqui'nate, triquina'tus (tri t three, 

 + QUINATUS), divided into three, 

 then into five ; tri'sect, teisec'ted, 

 trisec'tus (sectus, cut), divided into 

 three, three-cleft to the base ; 

 trisep'alous, trisep'cdus (+ SEP- 

 ALUM), having three sepals ; tri- 

 sep'tate (+ SEPTUM), with three 

 septa or partitions, as in many 

 spores; trise'rial, triseria'lis ; trise'- 

 riate, triseria'tus (series, a row), in 

 three horizontal ranks or series, 

 trifarious ; trisperm'ous (<nrep(j!.a, a 

 seed), three-seeded ; tristach'yus 

 (aT&xvs, a spike of corn), three- 

 spiked ; tris'tichous, -chits (CTT^OS, 

 a series), in three vertical ranks ; 

 tristigmat'ic, tristigmat'icus ( + 

 STIGMA), having three stigmas. 



tris'tis (Lat., sad), of a dull or un- 

 attractive colour, as the flowers of 

 Matthiola tristis, R. Br. 



tristy'lous, -lus (tri, three, + STYLUS), 

 with three styles; trisyncotyle'- 

 donous (De Vries), = TRICOTYLE- 

 DONOUS. 



trisul'cate, trisulca'tus (trisulcus, 

 having three furrows), with three 

 grooves or furrows. 



triter'nate (tri, three, + TERNATE), 

 thrice ternate. 



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