triply-ribbed

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TRIP'LY-RIBBED, adjective [triple and rib.] In botany, having a pair of large ribs branching off from the main one above the base, as in the leaves of many species of sunflower. TRIP'-MADAM, noun A plant.
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