bipennated
/baɪˈpɛneɪtɪd/
bipennated adjective: having two wings.
Adjective
bipennated (not comparable)
- Having two wings.
- bipennated insects1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC
- For the keeping the Body steady and upright in Flight, it gernally holds true, (if I mistake not,) that all bipennated Infects have Poises joined to the Body, under the hinder Part of their Wings; but such as have four Wings, or Wings with Elytra, none.1768, William Derham, Physico-theology, page 366
- Having two shafts, blades, petals, or extensions from a single central point or body.
- Very branching, branches bipennated, and very close, nearly imbricated .1824, (M., Jean Vincent Félix, Corallina; Or, a Classical Arrangement of Flexible Coralline Polypidoms, page 129
- Each auricula was bipennated with a single meatus externus, so that this development was not strictly preternatural; the lambs possessing, in fact, two ears only.1850, The Veterinarian: A Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science, page 71
Examples of bipennated in a sentence
- Those that like cocks on dunghills fight without any serious provocation, only want a pair of fine glossy wings and red hat crests to be classed among the bipennated bipeds of the air .1836, “Armenian apothegms”, in The Chinese Repository, page 427:
- Some other birds have bipennated feathers—black-game and grouse, for instance; and I well remember that during the visit of one of my nieces a discussion arose upon the question of such feathers.1905, Richard Bell, My Strange Pets and Other Memories of Country Life, page 26:
- M. palmaris longus (figs. 13, 15, 29) is a bipennated muscle arising by tendon fibers from the medio-distal part of the medial epicondyle of the humerus.1926, Alfred Brazier Howell, Anatomy of the Wood Rat, page 63:
Forms of bipennated
| alternative form | bipennate |
|---|
Questions about bipennated
- What does bipennated mean?
- Bipennated means having two wings.
- How do you use bipennated in a sentence?
- Those that like cocks on dunghills fight without any serious provocation, only want a pair of fine glossy wings and red hat crests to be classed among the bipennated bipeds of the air .
- What part of speech is bipennated?
- Bipennated is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce bipennated?
- Bipennated is pronounced /baɪˈpɛneɪtɪd/.
Words near bipennated in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bipennated (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “bipennated.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bipennated. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.