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tergant

tergant is the rare form of tergiant.

Meaning of tergiant

Adjective

tergiant (not comparable)

  1. Showing its back, having its back turned to the viewer.
    • Tortoise [:] this animal is usually borne displayed tergiant in fesse, which position is sometimes described as passant. The term gradient seems to be used to mean the same, and tergiant seems to be implied though not expressed.1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 578

Questions about tergant

What is tergant the rare form of?
Tergant is the rare form of tergiant.

Words near tergant in the dictionary

  1. TERFspeak
  2. terfy
  3. terga
  4. tergal
  5. tergallic acid
  6. tergant
  7. tergeminal
  8. tergeminate
  9. tergeminin
  10. tergeminous
  11. tergether

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tergant (page history and authors); tergiant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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