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ternately

  • a word derived from ternate.
    ternate
    adjective
    consisting of three; arranged in threes.

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Stylopodium conical.—Smooth perennials, from large aromatic roots, with large ternately compound leaves, mostly no involucre, involucels of narrow bractlets, and white flowers in large many-rayed umbels.

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

Sterile segment of the frond ternately or pinnately divided or compound.

From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton

Leaves ternately, palmately, or 2-3-pinnately compound — 16. 14a.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Henry Allan Gleason

Leaves ternately compound; the segments crenate or serrate — 9. 7c.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Henry Allan Gleason

Sterile segment of the frond ternately or pinnately divided or compound; veins all free.

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