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ternate

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TERNATE

a.[L. ternus, terni.] In botany, a ternate leaf, is one that has three leaflets on a petiole, as in trefoil, strawberry, bramble, etc. There are leaves also biternate and triternate, having three ternate or three biternate leaflets. These leaves must not be confounded with folia terna, which are leaves that grow three together in a whorl, on a stem or branch.
Ternate bat, a species of bat of a large kind, found in the isle Ternate, and other East India isles. [See Vampire. ]
Terra Japonica, catechu, so called.
Terra Lemnia, a species of red bolar earth.
Terra ponderosa, baryte; heavy spar.
Sienna, a brown bole or ocher from Sienna in Italy.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TERNATE

Ter "nate, a. Etym: [NL. ternatus, fr. L. terni three each. See Tern, a.]

 

Defn: Having the parts arranged by threes; as, ternate branches, leaves, or flowers. -- Ter "nate *ly, adv.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

ternate

ternate |ˈtəːneɪt | adjective Botany arranged in threes, especially (of a compound leaf ) having three leaflets. DERIVATIVES ternately adverb ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from modern Latin ternatus, from medieval Latin ternare make threefold , from terni three at once .

 

Oxford Dictionary

ternate

ternate |ˈtəːneɪt | adjective Botany arranged in threes, especially (of a compound leaf ) having three leaflets. DERIVATIVES ternately adverb ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from modern Latin ternatus, from medieval Latin ternare make threefold , from terni three at once .