Meanings
- not comparableHaving three separate parts (surnames) linked by hyphens.
1 more example
Ant taxonomists have decided that anything that's worth separating should be separated at the species level, and have no truck with subspecies at all. Butterfly taxonomists, however, like the triple-barrelled name approach and dote on subspecies. As a result, the numbers of ant species and butterfly species are not directly comparable.
2007 March 14, Emma Marris, “The Species and the Specious”, in Nature, number 446
Origin
Translations
Finnish kolmiosainen
- kolmiosainenhaving three separate parts
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