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

1. Of a flower, having three segments in each perianth whorl and usually in each whorl of stamens as well. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trimerous

trimeresurus
trimeric
trimerise
trimerised
trimerises
trimerising
trimerism
trimerisms
trimerite
trimerization
trimerizations
trimerize
trimerized
trimerizes
trimerizing
trimerous (current term)
trimers
trimesic
trimesic acid
trimesitic
trimesitic acid
trimester
trimesters
trimestral
trimestrial
trimetallic
trimetaphan camsylate
trimetazidine
trimeter
trimeters

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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