ternate

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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

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

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

Nearly glabrous, bushy and rather upright; leaves twice pinnate or ternate, the leaflets cut-toothed; flowers cymose; calyx 5-toothed; disk very thick, adherent to the ovary; berries black, obovate.

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

In most branches of science biÏ in composition denotes two, twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, twoÏtoothed; biternate, doubly ternate, etc.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah