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Three-leafed

Three-leafed \Three"-leafed`\, Three-leaved \Three"-leaved`\, a. (Bot.)

  1. Producing three leaves; as, three-leaved nightshade.

  2. Consisting of three distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes.

    Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium.

Usage examples of "three-leafed".

Before I pedaled off to find a path around the ditch, I thought of how Gordo would be feeling in a few days, his face and arms swollen with bites, when he’d realized all those green three-leafed vines down in Lucifer’s domain were poison ivy pregnant with silent evil.