trivalve

From tri- +‎ valve.

trivalve (not comparable)

1. Having three valves.

   Synonym: trivalved

trivalve (plural trivalves)

1. Anything having three valves, especially a shell.

• “trivalve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

trivalve (plural trivalves)

1. tri-valve, having three valves

• “trivalve”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From tri- +‎ valva.

• IPA^(key): /triˈval.ve/
• Rhymes: -alve
• Hyphenation: tri‧vàl‧ve

trivalve m or f (plural trivalvi)

1. having three valves

• trivalve in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana