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Plural of trivium. Triviacea (triv-i-a'sē-ä), n. pl. [NL., [F. trivial = Sp. IMG:content-0913.png:[blocks in formation] 5. In zoöl. and bot.: (a) Common; popular; vernacular; not technical: noting the popular or familiar names of animals or plants, as distinguished from the technical New Latin names. (b) Specific; not generic: noting what used to be called the nomen triviale - that is, the second or specific term in the binomial technical name of an animal or a plant, such terms being often adopted or adapted from a popular name or epithet. Thus, in the several designations Homo sapiens, Felis leo, Mus musculus, Rosa can in a, the words sapiens, leo, musculus, and can in a are respectively the trivial names of the species they designate. See specific, (b). 6. In echinoderms, specifically, of or pertaining to the trivium: as, the trivial (anterior) ambulacra of a sea-urchin. II. n. 1. One of the three liberal arts which constitute the trivium. - 2. A coefficient or other quantity not containing the quantities of the set considered.