-valentsuff. Having a specified valence or valences: polyvalent.[From valence.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.-valent (?ve?l?nt) adj, combining formchem having a specified valency: bivalent; trivalent. [C19: from Latin valentia; see valency]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014-valent a combining form with the meanings ?having a valence? (quadrivalent), ?having homologous chromosomes? (univalent), ?having antibodies? (multivalent), of the number specified by the initial element. [