ternateadj.

Brit.

/ˈtəːnət/,

/ˈtəːneɪt/, U.S.

/ˈtərneɪt/,

/ˈtərnət/

Etymology: < modern Latin ternātus (in Linnæus 1750), in form past participle of medieval Latin ternāre ( Promp. Parv.) to treble or make threefold. Compare French terné (1783 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).

Produced or arranged in threes; spec. Botany applied to a compound leaf composed of three leaflets, or to leaves arranged in whorls of three; also to leaflets borne on secondary or tertiary similarly arranged petioles (biternate, triternate).

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cut1565

winged1668

pinnate1687

conjugated1690

trifoliated1698

auriculated1712

auriculate1714

pennate1723

pinnated1725

pennated1727

bigeminate1753

lyrated1753

pedated1753

pinnatifid1753

supradecomposite1753

supradecompound1753

ternated1753

trifoliate1753

lyrate1760

pedate1760

quinate1760

ternate1760

tripinnate1760

palmed1767

bilobated1770

lyre-shaped1778

pennatifid1778

finger-parted1783

superdecompound1783

bipinnate1785

biternate1785

conjugate1785

lobed1787

tergeminate1793

wing-cleft1796

yoked?1803

binate1807

septenate1807

trijugous1813

auricled1821

pinniform1821

multijugous1828

pinnulate1828

trifoliolate1828

bipinnatifid1830

multifoliolate1831

multijugate1831

quinquefoliolate1832

bifoliolate1835

pinnatisected1837

palmatifid1839

tripinnatifid1839

foliate1840

palmatipartite1840

pinnatilobate1840

pinnatipartite1840

pinnatisect1840

bipinnated1842

biconjugate1847

imparipinnate1847

paripinnate1851

pinnatulate1855

polytomous1856

multifoliate1857

pennati-partite1857

pennati-sected1857

ternato-pinnate1857

tripinnatisect1857

patentoternate1859

septemfoliate1859

bipinnatipartite1861

bipinnatisected1861

bipalmate1864

pinnatilobed1866

septenous1866

cut-leaved1870

lobing1870

ternatisect1870

tripinnated1876

trijugate1880

jugate1887

pinnulated1890

trisect1899

tridigitate1900

trigeminous1900

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. vi. 184 Biternate, or Duplicato-Ternate; when there are three Folioles on a Petiole, and each Foliole is Ternate.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvi. 183 The species is distinguished by its ternate leaves.

1812 S. Edwards New Bot. Garden I. i. 28 The leaf [of Anemone nemorosa] is doubly ternate.

1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 4 A ternate leaf consists of three leaflets on a common stalk, as in the Clover.

Derivatives

Obsolete. rare.

† ˈternated adj. Obsolete

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