Meaning of triple-barrelled | Babel Free

Definitions

Having three separate parts (surnames) linked by hyphens.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“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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