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  • English Word Tristitiate Definition To make sad.
  • English Word Tristoma Definition Any one of numerous species of trematode worms belonging to Tristoma and allied genera having a large posterior sucker and two small anterior ones. They usually have broad, thin, and disklike bodies, and are parasite on the gills and skin of fishes.
  • English Word Tristtul Definition Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.
  • English Word Tristy Definition See Trist, a.
  • English Word Trisulcate Definition Having three furrows, forks, or prongs; having three grooves or sulci; three-grooved.
  • English Word Trisulphide Definition A sulphide containing three atoms of sulphur.
  • English Word Trisuls Definition Something having three forks or prongs, as a trident.
  • English Word Trisyllabic Definition Alt. of Trisyllabical
  • English Word Trisyllabical Definition Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, "syllable" is a trisyllabic word.
  • English Word Trisyllable Definition A word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger.
  • English Word Trite Definition Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject.
  • English Word Triternate Definition Three times ternate; -- applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leafiets.
  • English Word Tritheism Definition The opinion or doctrine that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct Gods.
  • English Word Tritheist Definition One who believes in tritheism.
  • English Word Tritheistic Definition Alt. of Tritheistical
  • English Word Tritheistical Definition Of or pertaining to tritheism.
  • English Word Tritheite Definition A tritheist.
  • English Word Trithing Definition One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called riding.
  • English Word Trithionate Definition A salt of trithionic acid.
  • English Word Trithionic Definition Of or pertaining to, or designating, a certain thionic acid, H2S3O6 which is obtained as a colorless, odorless liquid.
  • English Word Tritical Definition Trite.
  • English Word Triticin Definition A carbohydrate isomeric with dextrin, obtained from quitch grass (Agropyrum, formerly Triticum, repens) as a white amorphous substance.
  • English Word Triticum Definition A genus of grasses including the various species of wheat.
  • English Word Triton Definition A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell.
  • English Word Triton Definition Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Triton and allied genera, having a stout spiral shell, often handsomely colored and ornamented with prominent varices. Some of the species are among the largest of all gastropods. Called also trumpet shell, and sea trumpet.
  • English Word Triton Definition Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders. The common European species are Hemisalamandra cristata, Molge palmata, and M. alpestris, a red-bellied species common in Switzerland. The most common species of the United States is Diemyctylus viridescens. See Illust. under Salamander.
  • English Word Tritone Definition A superfluous or augmented fourth.
  • English Word Tritorium Definition Same as Triturium.
  • English Word Tritova Definition of Tritovum
  • English Word Tritovum Definition An embryonic insect which has twice cast its skin previous to hatching from the egg.