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trigenous

trigenous adjective: involving groups of three; arranged in threes.

Adjective

trigenous (not comparable)

  1. Involving groups of three; arranged in threes.
    • LXXI.—Polygonaceæ.—Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, stipules usually sheathing. Flowers small and usually bisexual. Perianth-segments 3-6, persistent. Stamens usually 5-8, opposite the perianth-segments. Ovary 1-celled, free, compressed or trigenous, ovule 1. Fruit a nut, enclosed in the...1927, Arthur Edward Osmaston, A Forest Flora for Kumaon, Superintendent, Government Press, United Provinces, page xxxiii
    • Simultaneously with the seed of the self-pollinated F₂ plants, seed of the self-pollinated F₁ plants was again sown; the trigenous segregation was here hardly to be observed. The figures of both segregations are given in the following table.1936, Freerk Wit, Contributions to the genetics of the china aster, M. Nijhoff, page 82

Examples of trigenous in a sentence

  • Ovary 1-celled, free, compressed or trigenous, ovule 1.1927, Arthur Edward Osmaston, A Forest Flora for Kumaon, Superintendent, Government Press, United Provinces, page xxxiii
  • Calyx much longer than the corolla, both rose-violet or rarely white; leaves 1.5-2.5 mm long, scalelike, trigenous, sagittate at base, sessile, imbricated in 4 series ... 1108.1967, Flora of the U.S.S.R., Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation, page 20:
  • The trigenous kernel is creamish coloured when young.2006, Standardisation of Single Drugs of Unani Medicine (Part 4), Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine, Ministry of Health and...

Origin of trigenous

From tri- + -genous.

Questions about trigenous

What does trigenous mean?
Trigenous means involving groups of three; arranged in threes.
How do you use trigenous in a sentence?
Ovary 1-celled, free, compressed or trigenous, ovule 1.
What part of speech is trigenous?
Trigenous is an adjective.

Words near trigenous in the dictionary

  1. trigenerative
  2. trigeneric
  3. trigenic
  4. trigenic acid
  5. trigenomic
  6. trigenous
  7. Triger process
  8. trigermane
  9. trigesimal
  10. trigesimo-secundo
  11. trigesimo-secundos

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