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What does trimerous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) Organized in threes; having parts in numbers that are multiples of three.
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Most basal Eudicots are dimerous or trimerous, with only occasionally pentamerous types which represent homoplasious trends.
A very minute joint at the base of the claw-joint, in most tetramerous and Trimerous beetles.
So in fuchsias, a very common deviation consists in a trimerous and rarely a dimerous symmetry of the flower.
Some non-terminal flowers are dimerous, but otherwise identical to trimerous flowers.
Flowers in Cyperoideae usually have a trimerous superior pistil consisting of a trigonous, unilocular ovary, a long single style and three stigmatic branches.
Basal lineages are trimerous with differentiated sepals and petals.

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