trimerocephalus

[Greek trimerēs = tripartite, and kephale =the head.] Palcont .: A sub-genus of Phacops. (PHACOPIDE.] sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. "This foot yet, in the famous trimeters Of Decius and Ennius, rare appears." Fie, Mistre Cooke! faith, you're too rank a Tory! Wish not Whigs hanged, but pity their hard cases." Dryden: Epilogue to Duke of Guise. IMG:content-1450.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Biol .: The existence in certain plants, and ani- tion with the reproductive organs. In trimorphic mals of three distinct forms, especially plants there are three forms, differing in the lengths of their pistils and stamens, in the size and color of their pollen grains, and in some other respects; and, as in each of the three forms there are two sets of stamens, the three forms po e altogether six sets of stamens and three kinds of pistils. These that half the stamens in two of the forms stand on a organs are so proportioned in length to each other level with the stigma of the third form. To obtain full fertility with these plants, it is nece ary that taken from the stamens of corresponding height in the stigma of the one should be fertilized by pollen another form. Hence, six unions are legitimate, i. e., fully fertile, and twelve are illegitimate, or more or le unfertile. ( Darwin : Orig. of Species , ch. ix.) Wallace has shown that the females of certain butterflies from the Malay Archipelago ap- pear in three conspicuously distinct forms without IMG:content-1451.jpg:[blocks in formation] 1. The later Hindu triad = Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva-considered as an inseparable unity. The Padma Purana, which, as a Purana of the Vaish dennes the Trimurti: In the beginning of creation nav as, a igns to Vishnu the highest rank, thus the great Vishnu, desirous of creating the world, produced from the right side of his body himself as Brahma; then, in order to preserve the world, he produced from the left side of his body Vishnu; and middle of his body the in order to destroy the world he produced from the Vishnu, others Siva; but Vishnu, one, yet three- fold, creates, preserves, and destroys; therefore let the pious make no dif- ference between the three." Trimurti, there- fore, implies the unity of the three principles of and destruction, and is an expre ion of philosophi- cal, rather than of popu- lar belief. The symbol of the Trimurti is the mystical syllable o (= a + u ) m ; where a stands for "That far-beaming blaze of majesty, Wherewith he wont at heav'n's high council table To sit the midst of trinal unity, He laid aside." Geog.: A town on the east coast of Ceylon. Trin com a lee-wood, s . (Dryden: Palamon and Arcite , iii. 289.) *trine, v . t . [TRINE, a.] To put in atrine aspect. vatus ,] tri-ner-vate, a. [Pref. tri- , and Mod. Lat. ner- IMG:content-1452.jpg:[graphic] trinitarian barren flowers lanceolate, with a narrow, involute point, those of the fertile flowers ovate, with a short, inflected point; fruit ovate, carpels with five prominent ribs and single vitte beneath them. Known species eight, from Southern Europe and Temperate Asia.