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From Latin triticeus + -al, from triticum (“wheat”) + -eus (adjective suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Shaped like a grain of wheat, especially denoting to the pair of small cartilages in the larynx. Full definition →
From Latin triticeus + -al, from triticum (“wheat”) + -eus (adjective suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.