Associations to the word «Tridentate»

Wiktionary

TRIDENTATE, adjective. Having three teeth
TRIDENTATE, adjective. (botany) Having tooth-like projections that are themselves bidentate.
TRIDENTATE, adjective. (chemistry) (of a ligand) Capable of attaching to a metal ion at three points

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope