trica
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from New Latin trica, coined by Erik Acharius in his 1803 work Methodus qua omnes detectos Lichenes. Perhaps connected to Latin trīcae, although the semantic relationship is unclear.
Noun edit
trica (plural tricae)
- (lichenology, obsolete, rare) An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “trica”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
trȉca f (Cyrillic spelling три̏ца)
- three (digit or figure)
- anything numbered three (playing card, tram, bus, player with a jersey number 3 etc.)
- the school grade '3'
Declension edit
Declension of trica
Further reading edit
- “trica” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Etymology 2 edit
See tričàrija.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
trȉca f (Cyrillic spelling три̏ца)
Declension edit
Declension of trica
Further reading edit
- “trica” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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