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Definition of Trimerous
1. a. Having the parts in threes.
Definition of Trimerous
1. Adjective. (botany) Organized in threes; having parts in numbers that are multiples of three. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trimerous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Trimerous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Trimerous
Literary usage of Trimerous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... This does not mean, however, that the monocotyledons are strictly modern and
monophy- letic. The flowers tend to be trimerous and ..."
2. Text-book of General Botany by Wilhelm Julius Behrens (1885)
"Corresponding to these floral types we have trimerous, ... To construct a trimerous
diagram, draw, first, five concentric circles (Fig. ..."
3. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"Flowers pentacyclic and trimerous, except a few cases where they are ...
Flowers consisting of the typical five trimerous whorls; outer perianth-whorl ..."
4. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"In the whole series, how- over, there is no distinct settling into a complete
trimerous habit, which is intimated rather than established. III. ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"... and described below) is pictured in BM 2499, but the species was first described
upon a trimerous state, and pictured in BR 628. ..."
6. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"The first of these is the least common ; the trimerous and the pentamerous far
the most so. The last is restricted to Dicotyledonous plants, where five is ..."
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