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triphallic en · ADJ

Etymology

From tri- + phallic.

Meanings

  1. Having three penises.
    • [...] three-headed and three-faced deities (and even a triphallic Mercury) and its triads of mother goddesses; [...] 1987, The Encyclopedia of Religion, page 151:
    • [...] and again this is an opportunity for an obscene remark on their virility (Cantharus and his gang are triphallic). 1976, Graham Anderson, Studies in Lucian's Comic Fiction, page 103:
    • In his festivals, he further tells us, a water-pitcher was carried, as emblematic of his nature and powers, together with leaves of the fig-tree, for an equally obvious reason, while in his statue he was represented triphallic. 1853, Leopold Hartley Grindon, The Sexuality of Nature, page 15:

Translations (2)

fr triphallique (having three penises) · fr triphalle (having three penises)