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triphibian
[trahy-fib-ee-uhn]
adjective
skilled in combat equally on land, sea, and in the air.
(of an aircraft) equipped to take off from land, water, snow, or ice.
noun
a person who is triphibian.
a triphibian airplane.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of triphibian1
Example Sentences
Politicos Winston Churchill found that the fighting versatility of Lord Louis Mountbatten, newly appointed Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, called for a new word, promptly furnished it : "He is what, pedants notwithstanding, I will venture to call a complete triphibian�that is to say, a creature equally at home in three elements, earth, air and water, and also well accustomed to fire."
Noise of air, he was flying, it must have been a triphibian they took him onto.
But he could not anticipate what would happen to him in his Triphibian Atomicar.
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