Ternate; three-fold; three together, as the leaflets of clo ver, etc.
Tessellated; resembling mosaic work; in little squares, or checkers, like a chess-board.
Testa. The outer integument, or proper coat, of a seed. Te,radynamous; having four long and two short stamens, in a cruciate flower.
Tetragonous ; four cornered, or ing four angles. Tetranurous ; consisting of four parts, or constituent portions.
Tetrandro us ; having four stamens of equal length. Thorn. Ash rp process from the woody part of a plant, being a stunted or abortive branch.
Throat. The orifice or passage into the tube of a corolla. Thyrsoid; resembling, or being in the form of a tbyi sus. 7'hyrsus. A kind of contracted, or dense, ovoid panicle, as in the lilac, horse-chestnut, etc.
Tiller. A sucker, or young shoot of wheat, rye, etc. Tiller, or tiliotv; t o put forth suckers, or new shoots. from the root, or base of the stem, as wheat, etc. (See Stole, or Stool.) Tissue. Web, or fabric; the intimate organic structure, or composition of bodies; especially those which are, or have been, alive.
Tomentase ; covered with a curled, or matted, cottony pubescence.
Tomenturn. A matted downy or cottony pubescence. Tooth d; (See Dentate).
Tor•ee, or turuloee ; swelled out in obtuse ridges. bent iu different directions.
TO1248. The bed, or receptacle at the apex of a flower stalk, on which are inserted all the parts of the flower. Translucent ; clear, or transmitting light faintly. Transverse, transversely; across; crosswise; at right an gles with lengthwise.
Triadaphous; having the filaments united in three par cels.
Triundrous; having three stamens.
Triangular ; having three angles, corners, or points. Tribes. Groups of kindred plants, intermediate between orders and getters.
teate ; having three bracts.
Trichotomous; three-forked; dividing by three equal branches.
TrieOCC0118 ; composed of three separable indehiscent car pels (or cocci).
Trzeuspidate ; having, or terminating in, three sharp points.
Trifarious ; facing, or pointing, in three directions. Tit,fid; three cleft; partially cut or divided into three segments.
Trifoliate ; having three leaves ; or the leaves arranged in threes.
Trifoli .late; three leaflets together.
rigonous ; three-cornered.
Trionous ; having three pistils.
Trilobate ; three-lobed.
Trimerous; consisting of three parts.
Tripartite; three-pai ted.
Tripetalous; having three petals.
Tripinnate; thrice pinnate ; the common petiole three times divided, or with hi-pinnate divisions on each side. Tripinnatifid; pinaa ely dissected, with the primary divisions twice pinnatifid.
Triplinerved; baying three principal nerves from the base.
Triyuetrous; baying three angles and three flat sides, as the culms of many cyperacae.
Trisepalous; having three sepals.
7'riternate leaf. When the petiole is twice divided ter nately, and each final branch bears three leaves. Truncate; having the end blunt, as if transversely cut off. Tute. A pipe or hollow cylinder.
Tuber. A. solid fleshy knob attached to roots.
Tubercle. A small excrescence, knob, or poiut on a sur face, making it rough or uneven.
Tuberculate; covered with tubercles.
Tubenferous; hearing or producing tubers.
Tuberous, consisting of, or fleshy and solid like tubers. • having a tube, or constructed like a tube.
Tuft. Abuncb or fascicle growing from the same root, or originating nearly at the same point.
Tumid; swelled, or enlarged like a swelling.
Tunicate. Coated; having concentric coats, or thin layers. Turbinate. Top shaped; resembling an inverted cone. Turf. The green sward, or grassy soil.
Turgid; swelled, but not inflated.
Tureen. A thick, tender, young shoot of a plant, as of asparagus, bop, etc.
Tussock. A dense taft or bunch formed at the root, as in some species of carer, grasses. etc.
Twin; two of the same kind connected, or growing to gether.
Twining; winding round and ascending spirally. Two-ranked, or rowed. (See Dintichoun.) Type. A model or form; a pattern individual which unites in itself most completely the characters of a group. Umbel. A kind of inflorescence, in which the flower stalks proceed from a common centre, like rays, or the braces of an umbrella. Umbels are simple or com pound; which see.