The solidification characteristics of three types of Pb-Sb-Sn ternary alloys with different primary phases were studied under substantial undercooling conditions. The experimental results show that primary (Pb) and SbSn phases grow in the dendritic mode, whereas primary (Sb) phase exhibits faceted growth in the form of polygonal blocks and long strips. (Pb) solid solution phase displays strong affinity with SbSn intermetallic compound so that they produce various morphologies of pseudobinary eutectics, but it can only grow in the divorced eutectic mode together with (Sb) phase. Although (Sb) solid solution phase and SbSn intermetallic compound may grow cooperatively within ternary eutectic microstructures, they seldom form pseudobinary eutectics independently. The (Pb)+(Sb)+SbSn ternary eutectic structure usually shows lamellar morphology, but appears as anomalous eutectic when its volume fraction becomes small. EDS analyses reveal that all of the three primary (Pb), (Sb) and SbSn phases exhibit conspicuous solute trapping effect during rapid solidification, which results in the remarkable extension of solute solubility.undercooling, dendritic growth, eutectic growth, ternary eutectic, solute trappingThe solidification of eutectic alloys, which involves the competitive nucleation and cooperative growth of two or more eutectic phases from one liquid phase, is an important research subject in the field of material physics. For the binary eutectic growth, there have been sufficient investigations which lay the foundation of successful theoretical models [1] . In contrast, the solidification process of ternary eutectic alloys is very complicated [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] , which requires further profound investigations. Most of the recent research on ternary eutectic solidification pays more attention to the extension of the classic JH model, the evolution of solidification structure, and the properties of ternary alloys under equilibrium or quasi-equilibrium conditions. Himemiya et al. [5] extended JH model to the coupled growth of three phases in ternary eutectic alloys. Souza et al. [6] studied the growth