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Noun

TANDA HUBUNG

tern

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun has 1 sense

tern(n = noun.animal) - small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail;

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CIDE DICTIONARY

, n. Array

Any one of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera. [1913 Webster]

Hooded tern. See Fairy bird, under Fairy. -- Marsh tern, any tern of the genus Hydrochelidon. They frequent marshes and rivers and feed largely upon insects. -- River tern, any tern belonging to Seëna or allied genera which frequent rivers. -- Sea tern, any tern of the genus Thalasseus. Terns of this genus have very long, pointed wings, and chiefly frequent seas and the mouths of large rivers.

, a. Array

Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate. [1913 Webster]

Tern flowers (Bot.), flowers growing three and three together. -- Tern leaves (Bot.), leaves arranged in threes, or three by three, or having three in each whorl or set. -- Tern peduncles (Bot.), three peduncles growing together from the same axis. -- Tern schooner (Naut.), a three-masted schooner.

, n. Array

That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together; especially, a prize in a lottery resulting from the favorable combination of three numbers in the drawing; also, the three numbers themselves. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

, n. any marine bird of the subfamily Sterninae, like a gull but usu. smaller and with a long forked tail.

, n.
1 a set of three, esp. three lottery numbers that when drawn together win a large prize.
2 such a prize.

Etymology

F terne f. L terni three each

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ROGET THESAURUS

Triplication

N triplication, triplicity, trebleness, trine, treble, triple, tern, ternary, triplicate, threefold, trilogistic, third, trinal, trine, three times, three fold, thrice, in the third place, thirdly, trebly.