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Definition of 'tripus'English
Noun
(tripodes)
A Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos, .
A vessel (usually a pot or cauldron) resting on three legs, often given as an ornament, a prize, or as an offering at a shrine to a god or oracle; often specifically, that such vessel upon which the priestess sat to deliver her oracles at the shrine to Apollo at Delphi; tripod.
(zoology|in cypriniform fishes) The hindmost Weberian ossicle of the Weberian apparatus, touching the anterior wall of the swimbladder and connected by a dense, elongate ligament to the intercalarium.
Synonyms
* bachelor of the stool, (equivalent at Oxford University), tripos
* (three-legged vessel in Greek and Roman antiquities) tripod
* (bone in fishes) malleus, malleus Weberi
Anagrams
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References
* “ ?tripus] ” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989
* The Century Dictionary Online
* Dictionary of Ichthyology, Brian W. Coad and Don E. McAllister
* A Dictionary of Scientific Terms, Henderson I. F., Henderson W. D., BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009, ISBN: 1113194219, 9781113194213, p. 174
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