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Having thirty-two leaves to a sheet; as, a trigesimo-secundo form, book, leaf, size, etc.

In three pairs; as, a trijugate leaf, or a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets.

Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex; -- said of a leaf. Gray.

Having three knots or nodes; having three points from which a leaf may shoot; as, a trinodal stem.

Divided into three parts; triparted; as, a tripartite leaf.

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.

Three times ternate; -- applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leafiets.

s) with red and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also trumpet flower. -- Trumpet leaf (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus Sarracenia. -- Trumpet major (Mil.), the chief trumpeter of a band or regiment. -- Trumpet marine (Mus.), a monochord, having a thick string, sounded with a bow, and stopped wit…

Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.

ness to the amount of; as, he turns over millions a year. [Colloq.] -- To turn over a new leaf. See under Leaf. -- To turn tail, to run away; to retreat ignominiously. -- To turn the back, to flee; to retreat. -- To turn the back on or upon, to treat with contempt; to reject or refuse unceremoniously. -- To turn th…

Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a twenty-fourmo form, book, leaf, size, etc. -- n.

Depressed in the middle, like a navel, as a flower, fruit, or leaf; navel-shaped; having an umbilicus; as, an umbilicated smallpox vesicle.

l dermal process covered with soft hairy feathers. Called also dragoon bird. -- Umbrella leaf (Bot.), an American perennial herb (Dyphylleia cymosa), having very large peltate and lobed radical leaves. -- Umbrella shell. (Zoöl.) See Umbrella, 3. -- Umbrella tree (Bot.), a kind of magnolia (M. Umbrella) with the larg…

Rising and falling in waves toward the margin, as a leaf; waved.

Waved obtusely up and down, near the margin, as a leaf or corolla; wavy.

In an unequal manner. Unequally pinnate (Bot.), pinnate, but with an odd number of leaflets.

Having a single rib or strong nerve running upward from the base; -- said of a leaf.

Having only one leaf.

Having only one leaflet, as the leaves of the orange tree.