triternate, a. Bot.
(traɪˈtɜːnət)
[f. tri- 2 + ternate a.]
Thrice ternate: see quots. (Abbrev. 3-ternate.) Hence triˈternately adv.
| 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. vi. (1788) 202 Triternate, or Triplicato-Ternate; when a Petiole bears three Folioles that are each of them ternate. 1835 Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 360 Triternate, when the common petiole divides into three secondary petioles, which are each subdivided into three tertiary petioles, each of which bears three leaflets. 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. (1860) 20 A large triternately compound leaf. 1870 Hooker Stud. Flora 168 Peucedanum officinale; leaves 3-ternately pinnate. |