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 themselves bidentate.
  • adjective chemistry, of a ligand Capable of attaching to a metal ion at three points

Etymologies

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tri- +‎ dentate

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