adj 1  :  having a chemical valence of three  2  :  reacting immunologically with three different combining sites (as of antigens or antibodies) <a vaccine for protection against three strains of virus> 
n :  a group of three synapsed homologous chromosomes in meiosis .
 
 
 
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