Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat triangular; three-sided with uneven sides or with the angles rounded off.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Nearly, but not perfectly, triangular.
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- adjective botany, anatomy Somewhat
triangular
Etymologies
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First described for a partial snout from the Brazilian Santana Formation, Tupuxuara longicristatus Kellner & Campos, 1988 is a toothless Cretaceous pterosaur with a rather long, subtriangular skull.
Those sexy tupuxuarids Darren Naish 2006
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Most artists have depicted them as looking something like long-tailed pliosaurs, albeit of course with that subtriangular fin at the tail tip.
My party and those marvellous metriorhynchids Darren Naish 2006
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Most artists have depicted them as looking something like long-tailed pliosaurs, albeit of course with that subtriangular fin at the tail tip.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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In contrast, in brachiosaurids it was small, subtriangular in cross-section, and not separated from the rest of the metacarpus.
Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006
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First described for a partial snout from the Brazilian Santana Formation, Tupuxuara longicristatus Kellner & Campos, 1988 is a toothless Cretaceous pterosaur with a rather long, subtriangular skull.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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But in the Yixian Formation enantiornithean Protopteryx (image at left: taken from Dinosaur. net.cn) there are just two conical, unserrated teeth in the premaxillae and two subtriangular teeth at the dentary tips (Zhang & Zhou 2000).
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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But in the Yixian Formation enantiornithean Protopteryx (image at left: taken from Dinosaur. net.cn) there are just two conical, unserrated teeth in the premaxillae and two subtriangular teeth at the dentary tips (Zhang & Zhou 2000).
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view Darren Naish 2006
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Dog-ear marks: in bees: small, subtriangular marks of light color, just below the antennae (Cockerell).
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Axillae: two small, subtriangular sclerites at the lateral basal angles of the meso-scutellum in Proctytripidae.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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It is probable that the subtriangular figure below is intended for the head, as the two circles with central dots are good representations of eyes.
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