trifoliolate

American  

[trahy-foh-lee-uh-leyt] / traɪˈfoʊ li əˌleɪt /

adjective

Botany.

1. having three leaflets, as a compound leaf.

2. having leaves with three leaflets, as a plant.

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Etymology

Origin of trifoliolate

First recorded in 1820–30; tri- + foliolate

Example Sentences

Changed "quadrifoliate" to "quadrifoliolate" on page 59: "trifoliolate, quadrifoliolate, plurifoliolate."

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

A handsome, half-hardy shrub, of often fully 10 feet high, with trifoliolate, evergreen leaves, and terminal racemes of large yellow flowers.

From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Webster, Angus Duncan

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 Gray, Asa

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 Webster, Angus Duncan

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 Vries, Hugo de