three-cleft

Closer to the fence are lemon-yellow coreopsis with quaint, three-cleft leaves; thimble weeds with fruit columns half a finger's length; orange-flowered milkweed, like the color of an oriole's back, made doubly gay by brilliant butterflies and beetles.

Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

The flower consists of three petals, the calix three; it belongs to the class and order _Hexandria monogynia_; style, three-cleft; seed-vessel of three valves; soil, dry woods and cleared lands; leaves growing in three, springing from the joints, large round, but a little pointed at the extremities.

The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850

According to the number ©f thefe divifiens, fuch a leaf is called C L CO called bifid, trifid, quadrifid, quinquefid, multi - fid; or two-cleft, three-cleft, &c. —

The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ... 1793