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Definition of Bifoliate
1. Adjective. Having two leaves.
Definition of Bifoliate
1. a. Having two leaves; two- leaved.
Definition of Bifoliate
1. Adjective. (botany) Having exactly two leaves or leaflets. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bifoliate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Bifoliate
1. Of plants: having two leaves. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bifoliate
Literary usage of Bifoliate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Orchidaceae: Illustrations and Studies of the Family Orchidaceae by Oakes Ames (1920)
"All of the specimens in my herbarium, in fact, are bifoliate. M. propinqua, on
the other hand, usually has a well-developed third leaf, ..."
2. North American Index Fossils by Amadeus William Grabau, Hervey Woodburn Shimer (1909)
"... bifoliate, an explanate frond $J- St Mesopores present, frond not articulated
15*- 15* ... thin bifoliate expansions, surface with solid maculae LXXXIV. ..."
3. Bulletin by Kentucky Geological Survey, Kentucky State Geologist (1905)
"Occasionally branches which are themselves bifoliate fronds, grow at right angles
to the parent frond, and in like manner from these branches others may ..."
4. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1913)
"... differs in being bifoliate and in lacking the characteristic periodic swelling of
... of comparatively narrow, bifoliate branches with the two layers of ..."
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