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bidichotomous

bidichotomous adjective: dividing or branching first into two branches, and then (in at least one of those branches) into two more branches.

Adjective

bidichotomous

  1. (especially) Dividing or branching first into two branches, and then (in at least one of those branches) into two more branches.
    • [...] two primaries immediately preceding it unite on the umbilical shoulder forming a bidichotomous bundle. The periphery is gently rounded and the cast shows a slight ventral groove, comparatively broad and shallow, on the peripheral [...]1925, Ernest Neaverson, Ammonites from the Upper Kimmeridge Clay, page 25
    • [...] bidichotomous or polyptychitid rib bundles appears rather early in the ontogeny of T. elegans.1978, Bulletin, numbers 298-302, Geological Survey of Canada, page 44

Questions about bidichotomous

What does bidichotomous mean?
Bidichotomous means dividing or branching first into two branches, and then (in at least one of those branches) into two more branches.
What part of speech is bidichotomous?
Bidichotomous is an adjective.

Words near bidichotomous in the dictionary

  1. bidialectalist
  2. bidialectalists
  3. bidialectally
  4. bidibid
  5. bidibids
  6. bidichotomous
  7. bidifferential
  8. bidigital
  9. bidigitate
  10. bidimensional
  11. bidimensionality

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