triple-barrelled

English

Etymology

From triple +‎ barrelled.

Adjective

triple-barrelled (not comparable)

  1. (of a surname) Having three separate parts (surnames) linked by hyphens.
    • 2007 March 14, Emma Marris, “The Species and the Specious”, in Nature‎[1], number 446:
      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.

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