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Trifoliated :: Trifoliated (a.) Having three leaves or leaflets, as clover. See Illust. of Shamrock..

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

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

Bijugate :: Bijugate (a.) Having two pairs, as of leaflets..

Fingered :: Fingered (a.) Having leaflets like fingers; digitate.

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..

Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers..

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

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

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

Imparipinnate :: Imparipinnate (a.) Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet.

Leaflet :: Leaflet (n.) A leaflike organ or part; as, a leaflet of the gills of fishes..

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

Leafet :: Leafet (n.) A leaflet.

Tripinnate :: Tripinnate (a.) Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rhachis.

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

Petiolule :: Petiolule (n.) A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet..

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

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

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

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