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Definition of Ternate
1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) consisting of three leaflets or sections.
Definition of Ternate
1. a. Having the parts arranged by threes; as, ternate branches, leaves, or flowers.
Definition of Ternate
1. Adjective. (botany) Having three divisions (or leaflets) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ternate
1. arranged in groups of three [adj]
Medical Definition of Ternate
1. ,plant biology> In groups of three, of leaves, arranged in whorls of three, of a single leaf, having the leaflets arranged in groups of three. (13 Jan 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ternate
Literary usage of Ternate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Class Book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"ternate leaves of this venation arc to be carefully distinguished from those of
the pinnate plan. The pal- mately ternate leaf consists of three leaflet's, ..."
2. Commodore Sir John Hayes: His Voyage and Life (1767-1831) with Some Account by Ida Lee Marriott, Ida Lee (1912)
"THE story of the siege of ternate would alone fill a volume. ... ternate * is
the northernmost island of the chain known as the Moluccas. ..."
3. Manual of Botany, for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1829)
"Ц.) prostrate, hirsute : leaves ternate, orbicular, pilose both sides : stipules
... stem creeping, striped with green : leaves ternate, roundish, ..."
4. Guide Through Netherlands India: Comp. by Order of the Koninklijke by Johan Frans van Bemmelen, G. B. Hooijer (1903)
"ternate. At dawn next morning, we .'see before us the peaks of the ... Straight
before us, we have in the first place the ternate—the perfectly intact ..."
5. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace (1906)
"THE MOLUCCAS—ternate. ON the morning of the 8th of January, 1858, I arrived at
ternate, the fourth of a row of fine conical volcanic islands which skirt the ..."
6. The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea: with notices of by Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1889)
"Now the jungle has left it nothing but a picturesque ruin, almost invisible
PORTUGUESE FORT AT THE NORTH END OF ternate. at a little distance amid the ..."
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