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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, three times ternate: applied to a leaf whose petiole divides and twice subdivides into three, thus bearing twenty-seven leaflets, as in some Umbelliferæ. Also triplicate-ternate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Three times ternate; -- applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leafiets.

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  • adjective botany Three times ternate; applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leaflets.

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tri- +‎ ternate

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