a. [f. as prec. + -OUS.] Resembling a grain of wheat. Triticeous cartilage or nodule (mod.L. cartilago triticea), Anat., each of two small cartilaginous nodules one on each side of the larynx.
[1890. Billings, Med. Dict., s.v. Cartilago, C[artilago] triticea, a small cartilaginous nodule found in lateral thyrohyoid ligament on each side.]
1891. Cent. Dict., s.v., Triticeous nodule. Ibid., Triticeus, the triticeous cartilage of the larynx.
