Meanings
- not comparablegovernmentRepresented with three bodies conjoined to one head.
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Synonyms: tricorporated
- not comparablerareSynonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies (which may be separate, or joined at the waist, etc)”).
Kepler, who excelled as an imaginative writer , replied: 'I will not make an old man of Saturn, nor slaves of his attendant globes; but rather let this tricorporate form be Geryon so shall Galileo be Hercules, and the telescope[…]'
1896, Thomas Nathaniel Orchard, The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost', page 1312 more examples
Athena wears a belted peplos, a bracelet, a necklace, and a fillet; in her left hand she holds a spear. [...] The tricorporate monster is joined from the hips to the shoulders. One part, on the foremost plane, is dying and turns[…]
1963, Dietrich Von Bothmer, Attic Black-figured Amphorae[...] attractive suggestion that the famous threeheaded 'Bluebeard' from the Old Temple of Athena (Heberdey 1919: 52–69) on the Acropolis in Athens represents Geryon. Images of a threeheaded, tricorporate warrior first appear in Cyprus in the [...]
2015 January 12, A. Bernard Knapp, Peter van Dommelen, The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, Cambridge University Press, →ISBNSynonyms: tricorporal
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveRepresented with three bodies conjoined to one head.
adjectiveSynonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies (which may be separate, or joined at the waist, etc)”).
Origin
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tricorporate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tricorporate
“tricorporate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tricorporate. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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