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bicipitous

bicipitous adjective: having two heads; bicipital.

Adjective

bicipitous (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Having two heads; bicipital.
    • It is not denied there have been bicipitous Serpents with the head at each extream, for an example hereof we finde in Aristotle, and of the like form in Aldrovandus we meet with the Icon of a Lizzard; which double formations do often happen unto multiparous generations, more especially that of...1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Questions about bicipitous

What does bicipitous mean?
Bicipitous means having two heads; bicipital.
What part of speech is bicipitous?
Bicipitous is an adjective.

Words near bicipitous in the dictionary

  1. bicinchroninic
  2. bicine
  3. bicipital
  4. bicipites
  5. bicipitoradial
  6. bicipitous
  7. bicircular
  8. biciromab
  9. bicistron
  10. bicistronic
  11. bicistronically

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