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triornithophorus bearing three birds; <strong>with</strong> flowers like Three-bird-Toadflax.<br />

Triosteum New Latin, short for Triosteospermum, from tri- and oste- and -spermum, from Greek τρεις, treis,<br />

three, and ὀστέον, osteon, a bone, and σπέρµα, sperma, the stem of σπείρειν, speirein, to sow, from the usually<br />

three bony nutlets of the fruit. (Caprifoliaceae)<br />

tripaleolatus consisting of three paleae or chaff-like glumes as the flowers of bamboo.<br />

tripan Greek bore through<br />

tripartitus -a -um three-parted, divided into three parts, having three parts or segments divides nearly to the<br />

base.<br />

tripetaloideus as if three petaled.<br />

tripetalus -a -um three-petaled, <strong>with</strong> or having three petals.<br />

triphyllus -a -um, tri-FIL-lus <strong>with</strong> three leaves, or leaflets; or <strong>with</strong> a perianth consisting of three distinct<br />

leaves.<br />

Triphora New Latin, from tri-, threefold, and -phorus, -phora, bearing; from the fact that it usually bears few<br />

to three flowers, or the 3 crests on the lip of the type species. (Orchidaceae)<br />

tripinnatus thrice pinnate, used when the leaflets of compound leaves are again and again pinnate.<br />

tripl-, tripli, triplo Latin three-fold, triple<br />

Triplasis from triplasios, triple, three times as many, a reference to the awn and long lobes of the type<br />

species.<br />

Tripleurospermum Greek tri-, three-, pleuro-, ribbed, and σπερµα, sperma, seed, referring to strongly 3ribbed<br />

cypselae<br />

triplex threefold, triple.<br />

triplinervis three-nerved, <strong>with</strong> three veins; <strong>with</strong> three strong secondary nerves on either side of the mid-rib.<br />

tripolitanus from Tripoli in North Africa.<br />

trips-, tripsi Greek friction<br />

tripsacoides resembling Gamma or “Buffalo” grass, Tripsacum.<br />

Tripsacum New Latin, from Greek tripsis, rubbing, friction, resistance to rubbing, possibly from Greek<br />

tribein, to rub, referring to the smooth joints, or τρίβω, to grind, the application uncertain. (Gramineae)<br />

tript-, tripto Greek rubbed, polished<br />

Triptolemus Greek Τριπτόλεµος, literally “threefold warrior’, also known as Buzyges. Triptolemus was the<br />

son of Gaia and Okeanos, and was ‘primordial man’. Triptolemus taught Lyncus, King of the Scythians, the<br />

arts of agriculture. See the relationship of elymus <strong>with</strong> Triptolemus Τριπτόλεµος, threefold warrior, who<br />

taught the arts of agriculture to Lyncus, king of the Scythians. “Triptolemos is analysed by Janda (1998) as a<br />

Greek continuation of a variant of the epithet, *trigw-t-welumos, a "terpsimbrotos" compound "cracker of the<br />

enclosure", Greek (w)elumos referring to the casings of grain in Greek being descended from the same root<br />

*wel-. On such grounds, a rock or mountain *welos or *welumos split by a heroic deity, liberating Dawn or<br />

the Sun is reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European mythology (the "Sun in the rock" myth, sometime also<br />

speculated to be connected <strong>with</strong> the making of fire from flintstone)”<br />

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_(Vedic)) Triptolemus was one of the original priests of Demeter, and is<br />

shown in bas-relief receiving the gift of wheat to give to humanity.<br />

tripterigius three-winged.<br />

tripteris -is -e three-winged, New Latin possibly from Latin tri, three, and from Hellenistic Greek πτεριδ,<br />

πτερίς, pterid-, pteris, fern, akin to Greek πτερον, πτερυξ, pteron, pteryx, feather, wing.<br />

Tripterocalyx Greek tri, three, pteron, wing, and calyx, in reference to the perianth<br />

tripterus three-winged<br />

tripudians dancing.<br />

tripunctatus three-spotted<br />

triquetr-, triquetrus, -a, -um, triquetris Latin three-cornered, triangular<br />

triqueter, -tra -trum triquet'ra (tri-KET-tra) three-cornered, three-angled.<br />

triradiatus <strong>with</strong> three rays.<br />

trism-, trismo, trismus, -trismus Greek a squeak<br />

triquinatus <strong>with</strong> three divisions, each of which is subdivided into five.<br />

trisectus completely divided into three.<br />

trisepalus having three distinct sepals.<br />

triserialis in three rows, transverse or lengthwise.<br />

triseriatus in three rows, transverse or lengthwise.<br />

Trisetum Latin tria, three, and setum, a bristle, a characteristic term. (Gramineae)

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