Definition of Trigonous

1. a. Same as Trigonal.

Definition of Trigonous

1. Adjective. trigonal ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trigonous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Trigonous

1. Triangular in cross-section and obtusely-angled. Compare: triquetrous. (19 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trigonous

trigonite
trigonitis
trigonocephalic
trigonocephaly
trigonocerous
trigonometric
trigonometric cofunction
trigonometric cofunctions
trigonometric function
trigonometric series
trigonometrical
trigonometrically
trigonometrician
trigonometries
trigonometry
trigonous (current term)
trigons
trigonum
trigonum acustici
trigonum caroticum
trigonum cerebrale
trigonum cervicale
trigonum cervicale anterius
trigonum cervicale posterius
trigonum collaterale
trigonum colli
trigonum deltoideopectorale
trigonum femorale
trigonum fibrosum dextrum
trigonum fibrosum sinistrum

Literary usage of Trigonous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... portion. j\ : large for the tribe, obovate-trigonous, with narrowed base and rounded summit, li 5 nerved, glabrous, slightly incurved. ..."

2. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of ...by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1882)
"... retuse emarginate ; the lip light purplish, with some darker purplish veins. Column slender, trigonous, purplish, bearing on each side of the stigmatic ..."

3. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"portion of the corolla, two of them bearded at the tip; seeds- obtusely trigonous. ... trigonous ..."

4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Culms trigonous and scabrous above; ache ne about 1 mm. long1 ... Perennials with running rootstocks ; culms sharply trigonous AA Involucral leaf erect. ..."

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