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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