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triquetrous, a.|traɪˈkwɛtrəs|
[f. L. triquetrus three-cornered, triangular + -ous.]
Three-sided triangular; in Nat. Hist. of triangular cross-section, three-edged, trihedral, triangularly prismatic or pyramidal.
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus ii. 40 The lithostrota or figured pavements of the ancients, which consisted not all of square stones, but were divided into triquetrous segments. 1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 27 The grey wood Spider, with a triquetrous body. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. xxxiii. 432 Almost universally they [the mandibles of insects] incline to a triquetrous or three-sided figure. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 291 Lamium, Dead-nettle..nutlets 3-quetrous. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. App. 309 Fruits ovoid, acutely triquetrous.
Hence triˈquetrously adv.
1884in Stormonth Dict. |