tripodes

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Scrabble points: 11
Words With Friends: 12
Letters: 8

Pronunciation

/ˈtɹɪpədiːz/

Definition of tripodes

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(form-of, plural)plural of tripus

“THE Poet here ſeems to have regarded two or three Paſſages in the 18th Iliad, as that in particular, where, ſpeaking of Vulcan, Homer ſays, that he had made twenty Tripodes, running on Golden Wheels; which, upon occaſion, might go of themſelves to the Aſſembly of the Gods, and, when there was no more Uſe for them, return again after the ſame manner.”
“The restriction was deliberate, for the Senate attach[ed] great importance to high distinction in the classes and tripodes of Oxford and Cambridge, from its known influence on the minds of students, and the character which it would impart to out Institution in its period of greatest trial.”
“Expansion of the swimbladder will be accompanied by forward movement of the free edges of the thin areas, and so by forward rotation of the tripodes. When the swimbladder contracts, the tripodes will be rotated backwards by the elastic action of ligament 2.”

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Etymology

From the Latin tripodēs (nominative plural form of tripūs), from the Ancient Greek τρίποδες (trípodes) (nominative plural form of τρίπους (trípous)); compare tripus.

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