Crossword clues for ternate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ternate \Ter"nate\, a. [NL. ternatus, fr. L. terni three each. See Tern, a.] Having the parts arranged by threes; as, ternate branches, leaves, or flowers. -- Ter"nate*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
a. (context botany English) Having three divisions (or leaflets)
WordNet
adj. of a leaf shape; consisting of three leaflets or sections
Wikipedia
Ternate is an island in the Maluku Islands (Moluccas) of eastern Indonesia. It was the center of the powerful former Sultanate of Ternate. It is off the west coast of the larger island of Halmahera. The city has a population of just under 200,000 on some 111.39 km.
Like its neighbouring island, Tidore, Ternate is a visually dramatic cone-shape. The two are ancient Islamic sultanates with a long history of bitter rivalry. The islands were once the world's single major producer of cloves, a commodity that allowed their sultans to become amongst the wealthiest and most powerful of all sultans in the Indonesian region. In the precolonial era, Ternate was the dominant political and economic power over most of the " Spice Islands" of Maluku.
Today, Ternate City is the largest town in the province of North Maluku, within which the island constitutes a municipality (kotamadya). It is, however, no longer the provincial capital, a title now held by the town of Sofifi on Halmahera.
The "Ternate Essay" was a pioneering account of evolution by natural selection written on the island by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1858 and famously sent to Charles Darwin. Darwin at once responded by publishing Wallace's essay alongside his own accounts of the theory.
Ternate can refer to:
- Ternate, Indonesian island in North Maluku
- Sultanate of Ternate based on the Indonesian island of Ternate
- Ternate, Cavite, a municipality in the Philippines. A namesake of the Island of Ternate in Indonesia, the home island of the seven Mardicas families who first settled the town and volunteered in Spanish colonial army to repel the Chinese pirate raids led by Limahong.
- Ternate, Lombardy, a municipality in Italy
- Ternate, a 16-gun brig of the Bombay Marine that served the British East India Company from 1801 to c. 1838.
- Trifoliate leaves, such as clovers; see leaf shape
Usage examples of "ternate".
The one referred to is not the one near Ternate, but in the Banda Sea.
Portuguese, whom he had expelled from his dominions, would gladly agree to aid him, and to enter into treaties by which all ships of his nation might come to Ternate, and trade for such things as they required, all other white men being excluded.
Golden Hind lay in the harbor of Ternate, they received a visit from a Chinese gentlemen of high station, and who was assuredly the first Chinaman who ever came in contact with one of our race.
But it was ten days after their final start before a large island, which they all recognized as Ternate, was seen rising above the water.
Had there been any alliance made, we should naturally have made for Ternate, instead of this island.
I observed at Ternate that many of the men have muskets, and the sound of firearms would therefore in no way alarm them.
The King of Ternate, surrounded by all his principal councilors and warriors, took his place, while the fighting men stood around him.
They did not wish to be recognized by any of the people of Ternate, as it was possible that some English vessels might again come into these seas, and they did not desire that the pleasant remembrance of the visit of the Golden Hind should be obliterated, by the sight of some of its crew in alliance with the Portuguese.
Before this the King of Ternate and his people assembled, the gunners on the walls standing, with lighted matches, by their cannon in case of trouble.
The priest then went along between the lines of the people, sprinkling them with holy water, and this being done the ceremony was declared complete, and the King of Ternate and his people were received into the bosom of the Church.
Ned interceding for them, their lives were granted on the condition that they should, on reaching Ternate, at once embark for some other island, and never return to Ternate.
Tidore by the people of Ternate, of which matters, the viceroy added, the gentlemen would themselves give a full account.
El qual, como le auia sucedido ta bien en Ternate co Boleyse, escriuio a su amigo los fauores y riquezas, que del anio recibido, y que per se boluiesse a su compania.
Tidore before he came to Ternate the king would have nothing to do with us, because he held the Portugals as his enemy.
Whereupon our General resolved to run with Ternate, where the next morning early we came to anchor, at which time our General sent a messenger to the king, with a velvet cloak for a present and token of his coming to be in peace, and that he required nothing but traffic and exchange of merchandise, whereof he had good store in such things as he wanted.