tricorporate
tricorporate adjective: represented with three bodies conjoined to one head.
Adjective
tricorporate (not comparable)
- Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:tricorporate.
- Synonyms:
- tricorporated
- Synonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies (which may be separate, or joined at the waist, etc)”).
- Kepler, who excelled as an imaginative writer , replied: 'I will not make an old man of Saturn, nor slaves of his attendant globes; but rather let this tricorporate form be Geryon so shall Galileo be Hercules, and the telescope[…]'1896, Thomas Nathaniel Orchard, The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost', page 131
- Athena wears a belted peplos, a bracelet, a necklace, and a fillet; in her left hand she holds a spear. [...] The tricorporate monster is joined from the hips to the shoulders. One part, on the foremost plane, is dying and turns[…]1963, Dietrich Von Bothmer, Attic Black-figured Amphorae
- Synonyms:
- tricorporal
Synonyms of tricorporate
Origin of tricorporate
From tri- + corporate.
Questions about tricorporate
- What does tricorporate mean?
- Tricorporate means represented with three bodies conjoined to one head.
- What part of speech is tricorporate?
- Tricorporate is an adjective.
Words near tricorporate in the dictionary
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