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古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Tripestone
(n.)
A variety of anhydrite composed of contorted plates
fancied to resemble pieces of tripe.
Tripetaloid
(a.)
Having the form or appearance of three petals;
appearing as if furnished with three petals.
Tripetalous
(a.)
Having three petals, or flower leaves; three-petaled.
Triphane
(n.)
Spodumene.
Triphthong
(n.)
A combination of three vowel sounds in a single
syllable, forming a simple or compound sound; also, a union of three
vowel characters, representing together a single sound; a trigraph; as,
eye, -ieu in adieu, -eau in beau, are examples of triphthongs.
Triphthongal
(a.)
Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three
vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.
Triphyline
(n.)
Triphylite.
Triphylite
(n.)
A mineral of a grayish-green or bluish color,
consisting of the phosphates of iron, manganese, and lithia.
Triphyllous
(a.)
Having three leaves; three-leaved.
Tripinnate
(a.)
Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a
rhachis.
Tripinnatifid
(a.)
Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf
when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also
are pinnatifid.
Triplasian
(a.)
Three-fold; triple; treble.
Triple
(a.)
Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold;
as, a triple knot; a triple tie.
Triple
(a.)
Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.
Triple
(a.)
One of three; third.
Triple
(a.)
To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble;
as, to triple the tax on coffee.
Triple-crowned
(a.)
Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as
the pope.
Triple-headed
(a.)
Having three heads; three-headed; as, the
triple-headed dog Cerberus.
Triple-tail
(n.)
An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the
warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle
coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and
becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long,
and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery scales
which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Called also, locally,
black perch, grouper, and flasher.
Tripled
(imp. & p. p.)
of Triple