ternate
adjective
consisting of three; arranged in threes.
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ternate
1 American
[tur-nit, -nayt]
/ ˈtɜr nɪt, -neɪt /
adjective
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consisting of three; arranged in threes.
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Botany.
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consisting of three leaflets, as a compound leaf.
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having leaves arranged in whorls of three, as a plant.
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Ternate
2
American
[ter -nah-te, ter-nah-tee]
/ tɛrˈnɑ tɛ, tərˈnɑ ti /
noun
ternate
British
/ ˈtɜːnɪt, -neɪt /
adjective
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(esp of a leaf) consisting of three leaflets or other parts
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(esp of plants) having groups of three members
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Etymology
Origin of ternate
From the New Latin word ternātus, dating back to 1745–55. See tern 2, -ate 1
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Leaves prevalently ternate but sometimes in fascicles of 4 or 5, from 15 to 30 cm. long, slender and gracefully drooping; resin-ducts medial or with an occasional internal duct, hypoderm weak, of uniform thin-walled cells.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
Scales of the fertile ament few, decussately opposite or ternate, becoming a small closed cone or sort of drupe.
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
Fronds broadly triangular, ternate, one to three feet high or more, the widely spreading branches twice pinnate, the lower pinnules more or less pinnátifid.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton
Radical-leaves.—Commonly pinnately ternate; the leaflets cut into three to seven usually linear lobes.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Leaves decussately opposite or ternate, usually scale-like and adnate, the earlier free and subulate; leaf-buds not scaly.
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
The party aimed for Ternate, an island in Indonesia, 800 miles from their shipwreck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Indonesian officials said two Singaporeans and one local resident from the nearby city of Ternate had died.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
The Portuguese, meanwhile, had nervously noted that visitors from Mecca, the Ottoman Empire, and other Southeast Asian Islamic sultanates frequented Ternate.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Police say a flight attendant aboard a Citilink plane traveling from Jakarta to Ternate in North Maluku province on Sunday noticed the man change the clothes in the lavatory.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
Wallace had no knowledge this was happening; he was too far away, in Ternate, Indonesia, for them to let him know in time.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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