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ternate

[tur-nit, -neyt] / ˈtɜr nɪt, -neɪt /




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Leaves binate, sometimes ternate, from 15 to 30 cm. long, rigid, erect; hypoderm of uniform thick-walled cells; resin-ducts of remarkable size, septal, or not quite touching the endoderm and technically external.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

Leaves ternate, from 15 to 25 cm. long; resin-ducts internal or with an occasional septal duct, hypoderm biform, in thick masses, often projecting far into the green tissue and sometimes touching the endoderm.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

Radical and lower stem-leaves large, 1–2-pinnately compound, with leaflets cut into short narrow segments; upper stem-leaves ternate, with narrowly linear elongated leaflets; fruit 2–3´´ long.—Ohio to Ill. and Mo., south to Tenn. and Ark. July.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Leaves binate, ternate, or both, from 10 to 15 cm. long, stout and rigid; resin-ducts external, or external and medial.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

Cones dehiscent at maturity 52. virginiana Cones serotinous 53. clausa Leaves ternate.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell