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tervalent

tervalent adjective: trivalent.

Adjective

tervalent (not comparable)

  1. trivalent.

Origin of tervalent

From ter- + valent.

Questions about tervalent

What does tervalent mean?
Tervalent means trivalent.
What part of speech is tervalent?
Tervalent is an adjective.

Words near tervalent in the dictionary

  1. teruteros
  2. terutroban
  3. Teruya
  4. Teruyas
  5. tervalence
  6. tervalent
  7. terven
  8. tervens
  9. tervert
  10. terverticillate
  11. terverts

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