Tridentiferous

Quick meaning: Tridentiferous is an adjective meaning (rare, obsolete) Bearing a trident.

Meaning

(rare, obsolete) Bearing a trident.

Example Sentences

[…]where the tridented Rhadamanthus—(Yama with Brahams, also tridentiferous?) with his three-headed dog Cerberus […] receives them into those unsunned dominions.

And my sea-birds made a great confusion in the awful calm, filling it with flashing pinions and plaintive whimperings, and settling into the shape of a dome all formed of beating wings, in which I on my ship and the tridentiferous god of the sea were enclosed, face to face.

Somebody calls Senator [Benjamin] Tillman a “tridentiferous statesman.” This is a reminder of the story that when some person described a crab to Cuvier as a red fish that walks backward, he answered, “a crab is not a fish, it is not red and it does not walk backward. With these three exceptions, your definition is perfect.” A pitchfork is not tridentiferous and Mr. Tillman is not a statesman. With these exceptions, the description fits him exactly. [Tillman was known as “Pitchfork Ben”.]

Synonyms for tridentiferous

Depending on context, synonyms include tridented.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tridentlike, tridented, tridentated, cirriferous, tridental, cirrigerous.

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