tripus (English, noun)
expansion: tripus (plural tripodes)
Senses:
qualifier: capitalised when used as a title
glosses: A Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos, prevaricator.
tags: obsolete
rare
raw_tags: in the history of Cambridge University
glosses: A vessel (usually a pot or cauldron) resting on three legs, often given as an ornament, a prize, or as an offering at a shrine to a god or oracle; often specifically, that such vessel upon which the priestess sat to deliver her oracles at the shrine to Apollo at Delphi; tripod.
tags: obsolete
rare
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The hindmost Weberian ossicle of the Weberian apparatus, touching the anterior wall of the swimbladder and connected by a dense, elongate ligament to the intercalarium.
raw_tags: in cypriniform fishes
Forms:
form: tripodes
tags: plural