trifoliolate
Americanadjective
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having three leaflets, as a compound leaf.
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having leaves with three leaflets, as a plant.
Etymology
Origin of trifoliolate
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Leaves all alternate and mostly petioled, sometimes trifoliolate or crenate.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
A handsome, half-hardy shrub, of often fully 10 feet high, with trifoliolate, evergreen leaves, and terminal racemes of large yellow flowers.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
It has trifoliolate leaves and showy yellow flowers.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
An interesting species about 6 inches high, with trifoliolate leaves, and deep-red flowers.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
It is a free-growing species, with trifoliolate leaves on long footstalks, and large white flowers.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
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