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tricingulate

Syllables: tri·cin·gu·late/ˌtɹaɪ̯ˈsɪŋ.ɡjʊ.lət/

tricingulate adjective: girdled or banded in three places; marked with three distinct rings, ridges, or encircling bands.

Adjective

tricingulate (comparative more tricingulate, superlative most tricingulate)

  1. Girdled or banded in three places; marked with three distinct rings, ridges, or encircling bands.
    • Shell conical, imperforate, thin, pale rose colored, upper whorls plane, tricingulate, the upper cingulus beaded, second and third smooth; last whorl obtusely angled, encircled by 5 cinguli; base a little convex, with 6 cinguli; aperture quadrangular; columella a little oblique, cylindrical...1889, George W. Tryon, Jr., Henry A. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology: Structural and Systematic with Illustrations of the Species., volume XI, Philadelphia: Conchological Section, Academy of Natural...
    • Primary A increases in strength until about whorl 6 which is strongly tricingulate, but thereafter the rise of the secondary, r, followed by tertiaries, decreases its importance.1957, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin, numbers 26-30, page 36

Forms of tricingulate

comparativemore tricingulate
superlativemost tricingulate

Origin of tricingulate

From tri- + cingulum + -ate.

Questions about tricingulate

What does tricingulate mean?
Tricingulate means girdled or banded in three places; marked with three distinct rings, ridges, or encircling bands.
What part of speech is tricingulate?
Tricingulate is an adjective.
How do you pronounce tricingulate?
Tricingulate is pronounced /ˌtɹaɪ̯ˈsɪŋ.ɡjʊ.lət/.

Words near tricingulate in the dictionary

  1. triciliated
  2. tricin
  3. tricine
  4. tricing
  5. tricing up
  6. tricingulate
  7. tricipital
  8. tricircular
  9. triciribine
  10. tricistronic
  11. tricitrate

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