trinn.
/trɪn/ a. plural. Three children or young born at one birth: = trine n. 3. Also singular one of such; also attributive or as adj. Cf. thrin n.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > offspring > multiple offspring: triplets
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > relationship between those born at same time
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1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 29 998 The teeming matron is near her time, and from her bulk you may back her for trins.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm (1849) I. 597/2 In a small flock of 50 Leicester ewes, 48 of them had twins, and 2 trins.
1875 Furnivall in Lovelich's Grail i. 291 (note) Trins are always born: two males and one female.
1887 F. J. Furnivall in J. Lane's Contn. Squire's Tale p. viii (note) Spenser..made the fay-born trin brethren, Priamond, Dyamond, and Triamond, fight Camballo..to see which of them could win Canace.
b. transferred (Mineralogy). A compound crystal of three individuals, a trilling.
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1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 805 Tridymite,..in allusion to its compound forms of three individuals, or trins, from τρίδυμος.
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