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Definition of Triquetrous
1. a. Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal.
Definition of Triquetrous
1. Adjective. Having three corners or sides; triangular. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Triquetrous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Triquetrous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Triquetrous
Literary usage of Triquetrous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"tin l lo 2 foot bigh, elender, often decumbent, triquetrous, scabrous at»v<> ...
Culm 1 to 2 feet hich, rather slender, triquetrous, scabrous above, leafy. ..."
2. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1864)
"... triangular-oblong, marked with the impressions of the stamens, triquetrous above
... inner ones shortly triquetrous at the apex: ovary strigose: stamens ..."
3. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"Style triquetrous, longer than the stamens. Stigma 3-lobed, fimbriate. ... 3.
The triquetrous Germen, terminated by the Style and 3-lobed fimbriate Stigma. ..."
4. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"Petal* six ; outer ones linear- oblong, narrow, triquetrous at the apex, somewhat
concave at the base, nearly closed, inner petals merely rudimentary scales ..."
5. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants by James Sowerby, John Thomas Boswell, Phebe Lankester, John William Salter (1870)
"... rarely dim, usually ribbed, with a beak of variable length. Stigmas 3.
Xut trigonous or triquetrous, rather loosely covered by the peri- ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"4-6, triquetrous, thickened from the base to ihr middle, but tapering to the apex.
... Stemless: Ivs. curved-triquetrous upwards, with u recurved muero or ..."
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