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tribbles

/ˈtɹɪbəlz/

tribbles is the plural of tribble.

Meaning of tribble

Noun (1)

tribble (plural tribbles)

  1. A horizontal frame with wires stretched across it for drying paper.

Noun (2)

tribble (plural tribbles)

  1. A fictional alien creature in Star Trek, a fast-breeding, cooing ball of fur.
    • Scales have proliferated like tribbles in quadra-triticale: just intonations, equal temperaments, scales based on overtones, scales generated from a single interval or pair of intervals, scales without octaves, scales arising from arcane mathematical formulas, scales that reflect cosmological or...1998, William A. Sethares, Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale, page 49

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Proper noun capitalized: Tribbles

Tribbles

  1. (plural) plural of Tribble

Questions about tribbles

What is tribbles the plural of?
Tribbles is the plural of tribble.
What part of speech is tribbles?
Tribbles is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tribbles?
Tribbles is pronounced /ˈtɹɪbəlz/.

Words near tribbles in the dictionary

  1. tribbers
  2. Tribbett
  3. Tribbetts
  4. tribbing
  5. tribble
  6. tribbles
  7. Tribby
  8. Tribbys
  9. tribe
  10. TriBeCa
  11. Tribecan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tribbles (page history and authors); Tribbles (page history and authors); tribble (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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