Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Arranged in three ranks, rows, or series; in botany, facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks; tristichous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks, as the leaves of veratrum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Facing
three ways; arranged in threevertical ranks , like theleaves ofveratrum .
Etymologies
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Latin trifarius of three sorts or ways, threefold. Compare bifarious.
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Human existence is trifarious: physical, psychic and spiritual.
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