Definition of Biforate

1. a. Having two perforations.

Definition of Biforate

1. Adjective. Having two openings ¹

2. Adjective. (botany) Having two perforations ¹

3. Adjective. (architecture) Having two doors or windows ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Biforate

1. having two perforations [adj]

Medical Definition of Biforate

1. Having two perforations. Origin: L. Bis twice + foratus, p. P. Of forare to bore or pierce. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Biforate

biflavonoid
biflex
biflorous
bifocal
bifocal lens
bifocal spectacles
bifocaled
bifocalled
bifocals
bifold
bifoliate
bifolio
bifoliolate
bifolios
bifonazole
biforate (current term)
biforate uterus
biforine
biforines
biforked
biform
biformed
biformities
biformity
biforous
bifoveal fixation
bifront
bifronted
bifunctional
bifunctionally

Literary usage of Biforate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sicily by John Cuthbert Hare, St. Clair Baddeley (1905)
"The two graceful towers are of the late fourteenth century, and rise in six sections, with angle-columns and biforate pointed arches, decreasing in size as ..."

2. Florence by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare, Welbore St. Clair Baddeley (1904)
"The windows in the upper storeys are biforate only, but worked in white marble within round- headed Serena frames. At the summit juts out a noble-traceried ..."

3. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"biforate (-atus). Having two openings. Biformis. Two-formed; in two shapes. Bift'ons. With two faces or aspects. Bifurcate (-atus). ..."

4. Days Near Rome by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare, Welbore St. Clair Baddeley (1907)
"In Via del Trevio (75, on left) will be seen a very lovely biforate French-gothic window between renaissance pilaster-jambs. In the crown of it are seen the ..."

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