ternate
adjective
consisting of three; arranged in threes.
ternately
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a word derived from
ternate.
Example Sentences
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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
Fruit oblong to ovate, glabrous, with slender equal ribs, numerous oil-tubes, and depressed or cushion-like stylopodium.—Glabrous perennials, with ternately or pinnately compound leaves, involucre and involucels scanty or none, and white or yellow flowers.
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
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
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
Leaves.—Alternate; once- or twice- ternately compound; the leaflets ternately lobed.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
