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Having the form or appearance of three petals; appearing as if furnished with three petals.

Having three petals, or flower leaves; three-petaled.

Spodumene.

gether a single sound; a trigraph; as, eye, -ieu in adieu, -eau in beau, are examples of triphthongs.

Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.

Triphylite.

A mineral of a grayish-green or bluish color, consisting of the phosphates of iron, manganese, and lithia.

Having three leaves; three-leaved.

Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rhachis.

Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid.

The three divisions, or "baskets" (pitakas), of buddhist scriptures, -- the Vinayapitaka [Skr. Vinayapitsaka] , or Basket of Discipline; Suttapitaka [Pali] , or Basket of Discourses; and Abhidhammapitaka [Pali] , or Basket of Metaphysics.

Three-fold; triple; treble. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie. By thy triple shape as thou art seen. Dryden.

Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as the pope.

Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus.

An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery…

A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united.

Havingthree principal operative parts or motions, so as to produce a three-fold effect.

Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled. Triplicate ratio (Math.), the ratio of the cubes of two quantities; thus, the triplicate ratio of a to b is a3: b3.

Triternate.