triradiate

[ trahy-rey-dee-it, -eyt ]

adjective

1. having three rays or raylike processes.

triradiate

/ -ˌeɪt; traɪˈreɪdɪɪt /

adjective

1. biology having or consisting of three rays or radiating branches

Derived Forms

• triˈradiately, adverb

Other Words From

• tri·ra·di·ate·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of triradiate¹

1840–50; tri- + radiate (adj.)

Example Sentences

Triradiate, trī-rā′di-āt, adj. radiating in three directions.—adv.

From Project Gutenberg

This leads to a muscular oesophagus with a triradiate lumen, which acts as a sucking pump and ends in a funnel-valve projecting into the stomach.

From Project Gutenberg

The prepubic bones have a partially expanded fan-like form, and never show the triradiate shape, and are never anchylosed.

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But the idea that the modification of any internal or external part of the body of an Echinus carries with it the effect of producing elongated, flexible, triradiate, snapping processes, is, to say the very least, fully as obscure and mysterious as what is here contended for, viz. the efficient presence of an unknown internal natural law or laws conditioning the evolution of new specific forms from preceding ones, modified by the action of surrounding conditions, by "Natural Selection" and by other controlling influences.

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