ternate
IPA: tɝnʌt
noun
- An island in Maluku, Indonesia.
- The largest city in North Maluku, Indonesia
- A North Halmahera language of eastern Indonesia, spoken on the island of Ternate.
adjective
- (botany) Having three divisions (or leaflets)
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Examples of "ternate" in Sentences
- This was the al - ternate season when the western clans came to the caves.
- Sterile segment sessile above the middle of the plant, broadly triangular, thin, membranaceous, ternate.
- Its ternate character is shown even in the uncoiling of the fronds, the three round balls suggesting the sign of the pawnbroker.
- Leafy or sterile segment triangular, ternate, long-petioled, springing from near the base of the plant, and spreading horizontally.
- Rootstock slender and creeping from which fronds are produced all summer, in appearance like the small, ternate divisions of the bracken.
- Fronds glabrous, broadly triangular, ternate, four to seven inches broad, the divisions widely spreading, each division pinnate at the base.
- Steinheil has also recorded a _Cerastium_ in which one of the leaves was provided with two midribs; above this leaf was a group of ternate leaves.
- Democritus (fifth century B.C.), from their approach, made Non-Being into an appellation for space, to al - ternate with, or be a replacement for kenon.
- Fronds broadly triangular, ternate, one to three feet high or more, the widely spreading branches twice pinnate, the lower pinnules more or less pinnátifid.
- (Moreton Bay chesnut), a fine species of SARCOCEPHALUS, and a large spreading tree belonging to the natural order RUTACEAE, with ternate leaves, axillary panicles of white flowers, about the size of those of BORONIA PINNATA.
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