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Etymology

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From tri- +‎ pinnatifid.

Adjective

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tripinnatifid (not comparable)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tripinnatifid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)