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TRICOCCEAE

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(τρις, "three," and κόκκος, "a grain"), the name of the 38th order in Linnaeus's Fragments of a Natural Method, consisting of plants with a single three-cornered capsule, having three cells, or internal divisions, each containing a single seed. See Botany.