Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A three-toothed or three-bladed implement or weapon.
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Examples
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Masdevallia tridens – another cloud forest orchid from Ecuador.
NHOS Orchid Show 2009
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Little bluestem, sideoats grama, lovegrass tridens, multiflowered false rhodesgrass, Arizona cottontop, plains bristlegrass, and other mid grasses are dominant on deeper soils.
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Masdevallia tridens – another cloud forest orchid from Ecuador.
Unbooks 2009
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Typical grasses include little bluestem, Texas wintergrass, white tridens, Texas cupgrass, sideoats grama, and curlymesquite.
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Junellia tridens and Nassauvia glomerulosa are good examples of this type of plant.
Patagonian steppe 2008
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C. tridens L. (Chonyi: chikosho, Giriama: kikosho, Kambe: chikosho, Luo: apoth, Sanya: kikosho) has narrow or ovate leaves to 10 cm long with a pair of protrusions at the base of the blade.
Chapter 7 1999
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Capsules are broader than in C. tridens, up to 3 cm long, with three diverging horns and splitting into 3 valves.
Chapter 7 1999
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Should the sea be close at hand, the skeleton, shut in a box with holes, may be sunk, and exposed to the attacks of various "small deer," especially "bees" (Aega tridens), which swarm in some shallow waters to such an extent as to clear the flesh from a large animal in
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Corchorus olitorius L. Corchorus tridens L. Corchorus trilocularis L. Grewia bicolor Juss.
Chapter 11 1999
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Also in the northeast, over loamy Alfisols, were grass communities dominated by Silveanus dropseed, Mead’s sedge, bluestems, and long-spike tridens.
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