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biforous

biforous adjective: biforate.

Adjective

biforous (not comparable)

  1. Biforate.
    • biforous spiracles
    • The true biforous spiracle has its opening completely divided by a transverse bar, leaving two usually rather slit-like openings.2013, R. A. Crowson, The Biology of the Coleoptera, page 234

Origin of biforous

From Latin biforis (“having two doors”), from bis (“twice, two”) + foris (“door”).

Questions about biforous

What does biforous mean?
Biforous means biforate.
What part of speech is biforous?
Biforous is an adjective.

Words near biforous in the dictionary

  1. biform
  2. biformed
  3. biformities
  4. biformity
  5. biforms
  6. biforous
  7. bifoveal
  8. bifoveolate
  9. bifrequency
  10. bifront
  11. bifrontal

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