An early type of aeroplane with three pairs of wings, one above the other.
（早期的）三翼飞机
Example sentencesExamples
The film-makers have rounded up a fine-looking collection of biplanes and triplanes, which contributes to the authentic feel of the film.
Yet, the greatest ace of the war chose the Fokker triplane, eventually losing his life in it.
In 1920 the Army Engineering Division issued specifications for a large triplane bomber to the Witteman-Lewis Company of Teterboro, New Jersey.
In 1849, Cayley designed and built a full-sized triplane glider, which carried a ten-year-old boy several yards through the air down a hill at Brompton Dale.
Rhymes
biplane
Definition of triplane in US English:
triplane
nounˈtrīplānˈtraɪpleɪn
An early type of airplane with three pairs of wings, one above the other.
（早期的）三翼飞机
Example sentencesExamples
The film-makers have rounded up a fine-looking collection of biplanes and triplanes, which contributes to the authentic feel of the film.
Yet, the greatest ace of the war chose the Fokker triplane, eventually losing his life in it.
In 1920 the Army Engineering Division issued specifications for a large triplane bomber to the Witteman-Lewis Company of Teterboro, New Jersey.
In 1849, Cayley designed and built a full-sized triplane glider, which carried a ten-year-old boy several yards through the air down a hill at Brompton Dale.