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Definition of Trifoliate
1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) having three leaflets.
Definition of Trifoliate
1. a. Having three leaves or leaflets, as clover. See Illust. of Shamrock.
Definition of Trifoliate
1. Adjective. (chiefly botany) Having or comprising three leaves, leaflets, or (loosely) such similar structures, as the clover plant. ¹
2. Adjective. Comprising, abounding with, or featuring trefoils. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trifoliate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Trifoliate
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Trifoliate
Literary usage of Trifoliate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Citrus Fruits and Their Culture by H. Harold Hume (1911)
"In 1763 Linnaeus described the trifoliate orange in the second edition of his
Species Plantarum and the name applied by him, Citrus trifoliata, ..."
2. Genetic Manipulation in Crops: Proceedings of the International Symposium on by International Rice Research Institute (1988)
"Induced Variation in NaCl Tolerance with EMS in trifoliate Orange in vitro H.
... We have obtained successfully NaC 1-tolerant variants of trifoliate orange ..."
3. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... (in which the leaves are simple am entire), have trifoliate leaves. They gro'.
from one to two feet high, and bear blue or yellow ..."
4. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1890)
"(B.) A graceful creeper, with pretty trifoliate foliage, slender twining stems
and delicate purplish flowers; bearing, as well as the thin ..."
5. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"... nearly throughout the year ; very common about Musulman burial-grounds. C.
Indica, Lam.,und С. trifoliate, W. and A., are plants of Coromandel.—Riddell. ..."
6. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"... the pinnate leaf varies from thirty pairs and upward (as in some Acacias),
down to three, when the leaf is said to be ter- nate or trifoliate ; or two, ..."
7. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"In hardiness they also seem to be intermediate, being much more cold-resistant
than the ordinary orange, but not so hardy as the trifoliate orange. ..."
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