Triquetrous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Three-edged; having three salient angles: triquetrous mandibles.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having three corners or sides; triangular.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Three-sided; triangular; having three plane or concave sides
    • Word Usage
    "The spikelets are plano-convex, orbicular to oblong, obtuse, secund, 2-ranked on the flattened or triquetrous rachis of the spike-like branches of a raceme, one-flowered and falling off entire from the very short or obscure pedicels."
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    trigonal   
     
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