TRIPIN'NATE, adjective [Latin tres and penna or pinna.] In botany, a tripinnate leaf is a species of superdecompound leaf, when a petiole has bipinnate leaves ranged on each side of it, as in common fern.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.