trifoliate
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of trifoliate
Example Sentences
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The researchers posit that true Citrus species, such as mandarins and trifoliate oranges, first evolved in south-central China around eight million years ago.
From Scientific American • Oct. 11, 2023
Mr. Webber sent some valuable trifoliate hybrids to Merribrooke.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Thus the leaves of the Furze are reduced to thorns; but those of the Seedling are herbaceous and trifoliate like those of the Herb Genet and other allied species, subsequent ones gradually passing into spines.
From The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Lubbock, John, Sir
In this species, however, as in the others, the first-formed leaf, which is simple or not trifoliate, rises up and sleeps like the terminal leaflet on a mature plant.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
The simple leaved Rubus of Churra, petalis minutis carneis, has ceased; a trifoliate one foliis cordato-rotundatis, existing instead.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William
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