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trimes

trimes is the plural of trime.

Meaning of trime

Noun

trime (plural trimes)

  1. A silver coin worth three cents, minted in the US from 1851 to 1873.
    • If the penny is discontinued, it will join the ranks of other obsolete American coins, including the trime, a 3-cent coin discontinued in 1873, and the gold dollar coin, which was discontinued in 1889; that differed from the dollar coin currently in circulation.2025 February 11, Jiachuan Wu and Ash Reynolds, “As Trump aims to ax the penny, these are the coins that cost more than they're worth”, in NBC News

Questions about trimes

What is trimes the plural of?
Trimes is the plural of trime.

Words near trimes in the dictionary

  1. trimerorhachids
  2. trimerous
  3. trimerously
  4. trimers
  5. trimery
  6. trimes
  7. trimesic
  8. trimesic acid
  9. trimesitic acid
  10. trimester
  11. trimesters

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