tripusn.
/ˈtrʌɪpəs/ a. = tripos n. 2a.
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society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > examiner > at universities
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senate-house examiner1855
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1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 37 Wits..who never..were at all inspir'd from a Tripus's, Terræ-filius's, or Prævarecator's Speech.
b. = tripod n. 1.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > with three feet
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tripus1699
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 458 Gelon..made a Golden Tripus of XVI Talents, and sent it to Delphi and Donary to Apollo.
2. Zoology. A bone in the Weberian ossicles of cypriniform fishes, linking the ear and the swim-bladder.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > part of or member of
intercalarium1893
tripus1894
1894 T. W. Bridge in Philos. Trans. 1893 (Royal Soc.) B. 184 83 The horizontal process moves backwards or forwards with the lateral motion of the tripus.
1962 K. F. Lagler et al. Ichthyol. viii. 248 These ossicles are derived from the apophyses of anterior vertebrae; the hindmost of them, the tripus, touches the anterior wall of the gas bladder and is connected with a ligament to the next bone, the intercalare.
1970 Amer. Mus. Novitates No. 2428. 16 The intercalarium is attached to the tripus by a very dense, elongate ligament.
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