Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A monster having three feet.
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- noun obsolete, rare A
Bachelor of Arts appointed to makesatirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony;tripos , prævaricator. - noun obsolete, rare A
vessel (usually apot orcauldron ) resting on three legs, often given as anornament , aprize , or as anoffering at ashrine to agod ororacle ; often specifically, that such vessel upon which thepriestess sat to deliver her oracles at the shrine toApollo atDelphi ;tripod . - noun zoology The
hindmost Weberian ossicle of theWeberian apparatus , touching theanterior wall of theswimbladder and connected by a dense,elongate ligament to theintercalarium .
Etymologies
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From the Latin tripūs and its etymon the Ancient Greek τρίπους (tripous); compare tripod. In the sense associated with Cambridge University, the Tripus is named after the three-legged stool on which he sat during the degree-awarding ceremony.
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Examples
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Have you ever seen parapagus tripus dibrachius twins, who share three legs, two arms, three lungs, two hearts and a single liver, perform the songs they wrote on the ukulele, accordion, piano and guitar?
DCist 2010
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NAZfnN» Cberjonefinm Cretae. teeum tripus fumans,) (CaputDi* -
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