ternate

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Leaves ternate; leaflets 4–5′ long, half-ovate, obtuse, entire, stiff and downy, the middle one elliptical.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

Leaves binate, rarely ternate, from 12 to 20 cm. long, slender and pliant; hypoderm inconspicuous; resin-ducts external.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

Radical-leaves.—Commonly pinnately ternate; the leaflets cut into three to seven usually linear lobes.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

It broadens and divides atop into three or four lobes, and these, in turn, broaden and divide into minor lobes, double or ternate, and usually rounded at their terminations.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh

Both this and the patarra are creeping plants: the last with ternate leaves.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert