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Tergeminate :: Tergeminate (a.) Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.

Polytomous :: Polytomous (a.) Subdivided into many distinct subordinate parts, which, however, not being jointed to the petiole, are not true leaflets; -- said of leaves..

Quadrijugous :: Quadrijugous (a.) Pinnate, with four pairs of leaflets; as, a quadrijugous leaf..

Tetraphyllous :: Tetraphyllous (a.) Having four leaves; consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets.

Fo''liolate :: Fo'liolate (a.) Of or pertaining to leaflets; -- used in composition; as, bi-foliolate..

Scar :: Scar (n.) A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust.. under Axillary..

Leafet :: Leafet (n.) A leaflet.

Interrupted :: Interrupted (a.) Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf..

Bifoliolate :: Bifoliolate (a.) Having two leaflets, as some compound leaves..

Foliole :: Foliole (n.) One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet.

Biternate :: Biternate (a.) Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets..

Quinquefoliated :: Quinquefoliated (a.) Having five leaves or leaflets.

Quiname :: Quiname (a.) Growing in sets of five; -- said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole.

Bigeminate :: Bigeminate (a.) Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf..

Three-leaved :: Three-leaved (a.) Consisting of three distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes.

Leaflet :: Leaflet (n.) A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract..

Five-leaved :: Five-leaved (a.) Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper..

Trijugate :: Trijugate (a.) In three pairs; as, a trijugate leaf, or a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets..

Pleiophyllous :: Pleiophyllous (a.) Having several leaves; -- used especially when several leaves or leaflets appear where normally there should be only one.

Paripinnate :: Paripinnate (a.) Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.

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