What is "tricorns"

Usage examples of "tricorns".

The mining team had briefly entertained the idea of living in caves after realizing their prefabs had no chance against the tricorns, but the bloodworms had ended that hope.

In their self-defense killing of tricorns, the miners were apparently causing a serious threat to the Houses' main food supply.

If the exploration team had goofed on their analysis of the tricorns, they had missed the Houses completely, and it had cost seven lives before anyone figured out what was happening.

Cardman Tan had been the Number Three man of the mining team before the tricorns and Houses had taken their massive toll.

Theoretically, more tricorns meant more food for all the Houses scattered among the hills—but only if the bull-sized beasts came within sniffing range of the odor lures the Houses used.

If the tricorns chose instead to hound the men at the mine two kilometers away, there wasn't a solitary thing the Houses could do about it.

They'll have the knowledge and equipment to build us homes that the tricorns can't destroy—maybe even find a way to keep the tricorns away from us without having to kill them.

As the morning passed and temperatures rose, the tricorns began to congregate around the mine.

If we can supply live tricorns for your food, will you let us live here until our ship comes?

Pausing only long enough to check for nearby tricorns, he set off at a fast jog in the direction of the mine.

Picking a path that would put him downwind of as many of the tricorns as possible, he set off at a fast trot.

Two tricorns, he saw, were drinking there, but they were upwind of him, and neither turned as he approached.

Running full tilt between the drinking tricorns, he leaped into the pool.

The wind cut into his naked skin like nothing he'd ever felt before, and his whole body was racked with violent shivering, but he hardly noticed—his full attention was on the three tricorns now eying him.

We know the Houses have organo-mineral metabolisms—it only makes sense for the tricorns to be similar.