trinervate, a. Nat. Hist.
(traɪˈnɜːvət)
[f. tri- + L. nervus nerve + -ate2; cf. mod.L. trinervis.]
Having three nerves or veins. Also triˈnerve, triˈnerved adjs., three-nerved.
| 1811 A. T. Thomson Lond. Disp. ii. (1818) 45 Thin, cordate..trinerved leaves. 1819 Pantologia, Trinerve leaf,..having three nerves or unbranched vessels meeting in the base of the leaf. Ibid., Trinervate. 1866 Treas. Bot., Trinerved, trinervis, having three ribs, all proceeding from the base. 1891 Cent. Dict., Trinervate..Trinerve. |