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triceps is a noun meaning "any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii)". It carries one recorded sense.
any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for triceps come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.