ternate
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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
Scales of the fertile ament few, decussately opposite or ternate, becoming a small closed cone or sort of drupe.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Leaves ternate, from 8 to 16 cm. long; resin-ducts medial or with one or more internal ducts, hypoderm biform.
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
There was also, at no great distance, a number of etoa trees, on which clung vast numbers of the large ternate bats, making a disagreeable noise.
