a. Nat. Hist. [f. TRI- + L. capsula CAPSULE + -AR.] Having three capsules.

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1694.  Phil. Trans., XVIII. 278. Tricapsular Seed-vessels.

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1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., II. xxix. (1765), 145. In Aconitum some are tricapsular, and others quinquecapsular.

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