Three-pronged

Three-pronged battle among the forces of irony, cynicism and idealism.

No holds barred ... Frank Wilson 2008

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Three-pronged spears were hurled against him with deadly precision, and had he not at that precise moment leaped high into the air no power on earth could have saved him.

Chinese Folk-Lore Tales

To sum up: in the laying of the Three-pronged Osmia, no order governs the succession of the sexes; only, the series has a marked tendency to begin with females and to finish with males.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The Three-pronged Osmia, when boring the bramble-stalk tunnel in which her cells are to be stacked, gives a warm reception to any Osmia that dares set foot upon her property.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

When studying the emergence of the Three-pronged Osmia from the bramble-stems shifted from their natural position by my wiles, I recognized the uncertainty in which the evidence of physical science leaves us; and, in the impossibility of finding any other reply, I suggested a special sense, the sense of open space.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Lastly, I found a pair of them in between the row of cocoons of the Three-pronged Osmia (_O. tridentata_, DUF.), who provides a home for her larvæ in a channel dug in the dry bramble stems.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The Three-pronged Osmia has not therefore to trouble about adjusting the dimensions of the dwelling and the quantity of the food to the sex of the egg which she is about to lay; the measure is the same from one end of the series to the other.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

I have spoken of the first in another volume; [10] I have mentioned its pseudochrysalis found in the cells of two Osmiæ, namely, the Three-pronged Osmia, which piles its cells in a dry bramble-stem, and the Three-horned Osmia and also

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

_Osmia tridentata_ (_see_ Three-pronged Osmia), 136

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869