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triple-barrelled

triple-barrelled adjective: having three separate parts (surnames) linked by hyphens.

Adjective

triple-barrelled (not comparable)

  1. Having three separate parts (surnames) linked by hyphens.
    • Ant taxonomists have decided that anything that's worth separating should be separated at the species level, and have no truck with subspecies at all. Butterfly taxonomists, however, like the triple-barrelled name approach and dote on subspecies. As a result, the numbers of ant species and...2007 March 14, Emma Marris, “The Species and the Specious”, in Nature, number 446

Origin of triple-barrelled

From triple + barrelled.

Questions about triple-barrelled

What does triple-barrelled mean?
Triple-barrelled means having three separate parts (surnames) linked by hyphens.
What part of speech is triple-barrelled?
Triple-barrelled is an adjective.

Words near triple-barrelled in the dictionary

  1. triple X
  2. triple X syndrome
  3. triple-A
  4. triple-alpha process
  5. triple-alpha processes
  6. triple-barrelled
  7. triple-blind
  8. triple-bonded
  9. triple-click
  10. triple-clicked
  11. triple-clicking

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