Defn: A third thing corresponding to two others of the same kind.
TRIPLICATE-TERNATE
Trip"li*cate-ter`nate, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Triternate.
TRIPLICATION
Trip"li*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. triplicatio: cf. F. triplication.]
1. The act of tripling, or making threefold, or adding three together. Glanvill.
2. (Civil Law)
Defn: Same as Surrejoinder.
TRIPLICITY Tri*plic"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. triplicité, fr. L. triplex, triplicis, threefold. See Triplicate, a.]
Defn: The quality or state of being triple, or threefold; trebleness.
In their trinal triplicities on high. Spenser.
TRIPLICOSTATE
Trip`li*cos"tate, a. Etym: [Triple + costate.] (Bot.)