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tridentiferous

tridentiferous adjective: bearing a trident.

Adjective

tridentiferous (comparative more tridentiferous, superlative most tridentiferous)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Bearing a trident.
    • […]where the tridented Rhadamanthus—(Yama with Brahams, also tridentiferous?) with his three-headed dog Cerberus […] receives them into those unsunned dominions.1834, Edward Moor, “Fragments—Fourth. Descriptive Account of the Plates in This Volume.”, in Oriental Fragments, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 462
    • Somebody calls Senator [Benjamin] Tillman a “tridentiferous statesman.” This is a reminder of the story that when some person described a crab to Cuvier as a red fish that walks backward, he answered, “a crab is not a fish, it is not red and it does not walk backward. With these three exceptions...The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 136, number 168, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Inquirer Company, 17 June 1897, →OCLC, page 6, column 4
    Synonyms:
    tridented

Synonyms of tridentiferous

Forms of tridentiferous

comparativemore tridentiferous
superlativemost tridentiferous

Words that rhyme with tridentiferous

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Questions about tridentiferous

What does tridentiferous mean?
Tridentiferous means bearing a trident.
What part of speech is tridentiferous?
Tridentiferous is an adjective.

Words near tridentiferous in the dictionary

  1. Trident Board
  2. tridental
  3. tridentate
  4. tridentated
  5. tridented
  6. tridentiferous
  7. Tridentine
  8. Tridentine Mass
  9. Tridentine Masses
  10. Tridentines
  11. Tridentinian

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