trifoliate

trifoliate [trahy-foh-lee-it, -eyt] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN adjective having three leaflets, lobes, or foils; trefoil. Botany. trifoliolate. Liberaldictionary.com

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Sometimes tri·fo·li·at·ed [trahy-foh-lee-ey-tid] /traɪˈfoʊ liˌeɪ tɪd/. Origin of trifoliate First recorded in 1690–1700; tri- + foliate Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for trifoliate Historical Examples of trifoliate

The leaves are trifoliate, though sometimes they grow singly.

The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 13

William Curtis

The stem of the plant is bushy and branched; the leaves are trifoliate.

Prairie Smoke (Second Edition, Revised)

Melvin Randolph Gilmore

Changed “trifoliate” to “trifoliolate” in the index entry for “Foliolate.”

The Elements of Botany

Asa Gray

The trifoliate leaves are numerous, especially on the upper portions.

Clovers and How to Grow Them

Thomas Shaw

Again, the old furze-bush will have its leaves converted into spines, though the seedling started with a trifoliate leaf.

Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation

James Buckman

British Dictionary definitions for trifoliate trifoliate trifoliated adjective having three leaves, leaflike parts, or (of a compound leaf) leaflets Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012