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Answer for the clue "Like poison ivy ", 10 letters:
trifoliate

Word definitions for trifoliate in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context chiefly botany English) have or comprise three leaves, leaflets, or (loosely) such similar structures, as the clover plant. 2 Comprising, abound with, or feature trefoils.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trifoliate \Tri*fo"li*ate\, Trifoliated \Tri*fo"li*a`ted\, a. [Tri- + foliate. Cf. Trefoil .] (Bot.) Having three leaves or leaflets, as clover. See Illust. of Shamrock .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of a leaf shape; having three leaflets [syn: trifoliolate , trifoliated ]

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.