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
Example Sentences
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Changed "trifoliate" to "trifoliolate" in the index entry for "Foliolate."
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
It has trifoliolate leaves and showy 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
This is distinguished by its larger white flowers and trifoliolate leaves.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Webster, Angus Duncan
The leaves are trifoliolate, small, and neat, and the abundant racemes of individually small, Pea-shaped flowers are of the richest and showiest reddish-purple.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Webster, Angus Duncan
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