What is "trifoliate"

Usage examples of "trifoliate".

Troy pushed through a row of hard, fibrous stems, and suddenly they stared in amazement at a long, low swath of ground-hugging plants, dark green trifoliate leaves with tiny serrated edges, and bright berries.

In this species, however, as in the others, the firstformed leaf, which is simple or not trifoliate, rises up and sleeps like the terminal leaflet on a mature plant.

Here and there across the spheres, our fleet has found strange ruins or ships, perhaps one in every ten spheres, which are each unaccountably old and bear symbols in a trifoliate pattern-three leaves, three-pointed stars, and the like.

Your cloak, Teldin Moore, as you probably know, also bears that trifoliate pattern.

Amid the trunks of the trees grew elder shrubs, and snake-berries, and the elvish trifoliate plants of the purple and the painted trillium.

Incidentally we may examine here a trifoliate orange filled with fruit.

Some day we may have good trifoliate orange hybrids in Connecticut if the Buckley hickory, Stuart pecan, Arizona walnut and imbricated pine grow here.

He and Cabell and the Zor-clone, Rem, harvesting the Flower of Life from Optera's regrown fields, coaxing the secret of the Shapings from its trifoliate core, creating a matrix of their own design.