tripus
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
tripus (plural tripodes)
- (obsolete, rare, in the history of Cambridge University, capitalised when used as a title) A Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos, prevaricator.
- (obsolete, rare) 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.
- (tripos, prevaricator) bachelor of the stool, prevaricator, terrae filius (equivalent at Oxford University), tripos
- (three-legged vessel in Greek and Roman antiquities) tripod
- (bone in fishes) malleus, malleus Weberi
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