tricingulate

English

Etymology

From tri- +‎ cingulum +‎ -ate.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: trī′sĭng′gyo͝o-lət
  • IPA(key): /ˌtɹaɪ̯ˈsɪŋ.ɡjʊ.lət/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋɡjʊlət
  • Hyphenation: tri‧cin‧gu‧late

Adjective

tricingulate (comparative more tricingulate, superlative most tricingulate)

  1. (botany, zoology) Girdled or banded in three places; marked with three distinct rings, ridges, or encircling bands.
    • 1889, George W. Tryon, Jr., Henry A. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology: Structural and Systematic with Illustrations of the Species., volume XI, Philadelphia: Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences, page 371:
      Shell conical, imperforate, thin, pale rose colored, upper whorls plane, tricingulate, the upper cingulus beaded, second and third smooth; last whorl obtusely angled, encircled by 5 cinguli; base a little convex, with 6 cinguli; aperture quadrangular; columella a little oblique, cylindrical, scarcely truncate, but sensibly passing into the base.
    • 1957, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin, numbers 26-30, page 36:
      Primary A increases in strength until about whorl 6 which is strongly tricingulate, but thereafter the rise of the secondary, r, followed by tertiaries, decreases its importance.
    • 2024 July 1, Wikipedia contributors, “Calliostoma fonki”, in English Wikipedia‎[1], Wikimedia Foundation:
      The upper whorls are plane, and tricingulate.

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