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triple-barrelled en · ADJ

Etymology

From triple + barrelled.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a surname) Having three separate parts (surnames) linked by hyphens.
    • 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:

Relateds

double-barrelled

Translations (1)

fi kolmiosainen (having three separate parts)