Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having three teeth or tooth-like parts; tridentated; three-pronged.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having three teeth; three-toothed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having three
teeth - adjective botany Having
tooth -like projections that are themselvesbidentate . - adjective chemistry, of a ligand Capable of attaching to a
metal ion at three points
Etymologies
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Examples
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The maxillæ; end in a tridentate lacinia as usual, though the palpi and galea I have not yet studied.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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Legs rather thick, the outer of the two tarsal claws of the third pair of legs, cleft at the end, anterior tibiae externally sub-tridentate.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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