Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tricorporeal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tri-cor-po-re-al
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Synonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies; involving three corpora”).

Example Sentences

"[...] one is tempted to see in the pair of defending Amazons next to the body of the fallen Andromache an adaptation of the familiar tricorporeal Geryon."
"Agucchi wrote : Meanwhile I thank you especially for what you say, and then for the information you gave me about Saturn - that as you predicted it began again to appear tricorporeal at the last solstice."
"Commonly tumescence involves only the corpora cavernosa but occasionally it may also involve the corpus spongiosum and is then known as tricorporeal priapism. There is a long list of causes of priapism."
"Galileo realized that the star Saturn is tricorporeal, that is, three-bodied: a main, spherical body at the center, and two smaller ones on the sides."

Etymology

From tri- + corporeal.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: tri

Synonyms

tricorporal

Questions

What does tricorporeal mean?: Synonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies; involving three corpora”).
Where does tricorporeal come from?: From tri- + corporeal.

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