Definition of Triops

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Triopidae: small crustaceans with a small third median eye.

Exact synonyms: Genus Triops
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Branchiopoda, Subclass Branchiopoda
Member holonyms: Tadpole Shrimp

Lexicographical Neighbors of Triops

Trinidadian
Trinidadian and Tobagonian
Trinidadians
Trinil man
Trinitarian
Trinitarianism
Trinitarians
Trinity
Trinity Monday
Trinity River
Trinity Sunday
Trionychidae
Trionyx muticus
Trionyx spiniferus
Triopidae
Triops (current term)
Triostium
Triostium perfoliatum
Tripehound
Tripier
Tripier's amputation
Triple-O
Triple Crown
Triple Frontier
Triple Goddess
Triplex

Literary usage of Triops

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Triops] The scholiast says Triops was a king of Cos, from whom the Promontory neat Cnidus took its denomination. 82. ..."

2. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1913)
"This leaves seven species, with possibly one form of triops or ... In triops the length of the ovipositor varies as much as 5 mm., but as this same thing ..."

3. A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri by George Stanley Faber (1803)
"The father of this Triops was Phorbas; ... Triops is Tor-Op, the ophite god of the tauric Ark ; Agenor is Ag- Airi-Or, the folar deity of the ocean ..."

4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1915)
"... which in spots may be a close rival of its congener, O. speciosa, Conocephalus robustus, C. triops, ..."

5. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain), Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke (1904)
"... called the Delphic tripod triops'r'* because it was originally the symbol of the Pelasgian oak- god. Well might bronze tripods be given as prizes at the ..."

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