Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as triquetrous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Triquetrous.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Three-cornered
  • noun anatomy The triquetral bone

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a wrist bone that articulates with the pisiform and hamate and lunate bones

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Examples

  • Therefore if absolute certainty is required, a fascicle of triquetral leaves is best determined by actual count.

    The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

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