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Definition of Biramous
1. Adjective. Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches. "Horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"
Similar to: Divided
Derivative terms: Prong
Definition of Biramous
1. a. Having, or consisting of, two branches.
Definition of Biramous
1. Adjective. Branching in two, composed of two branches. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Biramous
1. divided into two branches [adj]
Medical Definition of Biramous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Biramous
Literary usage of Biramous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1902)
"Thus the first and second antennae soon become biramous; the mandibles are never
biramous, but at an early stage show a differentiation into a thickened ..."
2. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1895)
"A pair of appendages to each potential segment of the animal, all of which are
biramous except the anterior pair. Five pairs of appendages on the cephalon. ..."
3. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals by Gilbert Charles Bourne (1902)
"Thus the first and second antennae soon become biramous; the mandibles are never
biramous, but at an early stage show a differentiation into a thickened ..."
4. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"Otherwise, all the limbs are in pairs, and each limb is ilc, or biramous, with
each of the two branches, in turn, made f many joints. he head has four pairs ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The ых pairs of biramous appendages oí the Cypris stage arc visible beneath the
cuticle. The median simple eye and the compound eye arc both visible. ..."
6. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"In a slightly later stage the first pair of maxillae becomes biramous, ...
The second and third pairs of ambulatory legs become biramous, while the second ..."
7. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"The head bears one pair of antenna- and four pairs of biramous feet, ... The trunk
segments bear biramous feet. In some respects the trilobites resemble the ..."
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