Definition of Tripinnatifid

1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) bipinnatifid with segments pinnatifid.

Similar to: Compound

Definition of Tripinnatifid

1. a. Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid.

Definition of Tripinnatifid

1. Adjective. (botany) Thrice pinnately cleft; said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Tripinnatifid

1. Thrice pinnately cleft; said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid. Origin: Pref. Tri- + pinnatifid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tripinnatifid

triphthong
triphthongal
triphthongize
triphthongized
triphthongizes
triphthongizing
triphthongs
triphyline
triphylines
triphylite
triphyllous
tripiest
tripinnate
tripinnated
tripinnately
tripinnatifid (current term)
triplane
triplanes
triplant
triplant implant
triplasian
triplatin tetranitrate
triple
triple-SIM
triple-blind
triple-click
triple-clicks
triple-crown
triple-crown season
triple-decker

Literary usage of Tripinnatifid

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

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"It is a remarkably handsome plant, its rather harsh, heavy, gray-green, tripinnatifid leaves borne from a copious mass of slender, glossy brown scales. ..."

2. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by William Jackson Hooker (1846)
"Banks. ; rigid erect, fronds broadly ovate tripinnatifid, the segments linear narrow more or less cres oval and elongated terminal upon the lower segments ..."

3. Publications by Bureau of Government Laboratories, Philippines, Department of the Interior (1906)
"Rhizome stout, creeping, densely fibrillose; stipe 10 to 15 cm. high, stout, erect; frond 30 to 60 cm. long, deltoid, tripinnatifid; main rachis hardly at ..."

4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"A. Fronds ( Ivs. ) email or medium-#izi-tl. at most tripinnatifid. (Native species. ... Lvs. tripinnatifid ..."

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