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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In summer the range is wider, and besides many trifoliolate leaves the curiously shaped seven-bladed ones are not at all rare.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
Alow, spreading shrub, with long wiry shoots, clothed with neat trifoliolate leaves, and bearing an abundance of its purple, Pea-shaped flowers.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
Leaves trifoliolate, clothed beneath with closely adpressed hairs, and bright yellow, somewhat tubular flowers, usually produced in fours.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
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
The leathery leaves are trifoliolate with heart-shaped leaflets.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
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