Definition of Trichotomous

1. a. Divided into three parts, or into threes; three- forked; as, a trichotomous stem.

Definition of Trichotomous

1. Adjective. Divided into three parts, or into threes; forking three ways. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trichotomous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Trichotomous

1. Branching almost equally into three parts. (19 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trichotomous

trichostomatina
trichostrongyle
trichostrongyliasis
trichostrongyloidea
trichostrongyloidiasis
trichostrongylosis
trichostrongylus
trichothecene
trichothecenes
trichothiodystrophic
trichothiodystrophies
trichotillomania
trichotillomanic
trichotomies
trichotomous (current term)
trichotomously
trichotomy
trichotoxin
trichotrophy
trichroic
trichroism
trichromacy
trichromat
trichromatic
trichromatically
trichromatism
trichromatisms
trichromatopsia
trichromats

Literary usage of Trichotomous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace=book ... for the Use of by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1909)
"1 — 484 his spirit and soul, texts on, 484 trichotomous theory of his nature, element of truth in, 484 the trichotomous theory of his nature untenable, 485, ..."

2. Hortus Jamaicensis, Or, A Botanical Description, (according to the Linnean by John Lunan (1814)
"Stipules alternate with ' the petioles, subulate, acuminate, upright, and opposite ; racemes trichotomous, sometimes panicled, usually terminating, ..."

3. The Mental-cure: Illustrating the Influence of the Mind on the Body, Both in by Warren Felt Evans (1886)
"Difference between this and the Common trichotomous D,vision of the Mind. —Each Degree a distinct Mental Nature. — The Outermost Range. — The Senses. ..."

4. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"shrubby : leaves obovate-oblong, shortly pointed, glabrous : corymbs long-peduncled, trichotomous ; primary branches distant and horizontal, ..."

5. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1866)
"Flowers in dense or trichotomous panicles, lateral on the old wood. ... Flowers in divaricate trichotomous cynics or panicles, lateral ou the old wood. ..."

6. The Tourist's Flora: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and by Joseph Woods (1850)
"Panicles trichotomous : branches capillary, spreading ; secondary very short. ... Pan. trichotomous, widely spreading. Outer Pale firm, with strong rough ..."

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