trimerous
adjEtymology From tri- + -merous; ultimately from tri-, from Ancient Greek τρία (tría, “three”); + Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part”).
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Biology, Botany, Natural sciences Organized in threes; having parts in numbers that are multiples of three.
- The monocots typically have trimerous flowers.
- Derived terms
- trimerously
- Coordinate terms
- monomerous, dimerous, tetramerous, pentamerous, hexamerous, heptamerous, octamerous