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bipennis

bipennis noun: an axe with an edge or blade on each side of the handle.

Noun

bipennis (plural bipennes)

  1. (archaic) An axe with an edge or blade on each side of the handle.
    • Bipennis... A twibill, axe, or twall, sharpe on both sides, wherewith carpenters make mortaises: it was in old time a weapon1937, Starnes, D. T., “Bilingual Dictionaries of Shakespeare’s Day”, in PMLA, volume 52, number 4, page 1009
    Synonyms:
    twibill

Synonyms of bipennis

Forms of bipennis

pluralbipennes

Origin of bipennis

Borrowed from Latin bipennis (“two-winged”).

Questions about bipennis

What does bipennis mean?
Bipennis means an axe with an edge or blade on each side of the handle.
What part of speech is bipennis?
Bipennis is a noun.
What is the plural of bipennis?
The plural of bipennis is bipennes.

Words near bipennis in the dictionary

  1. bipeltate
  2. bipennate
  3. bipennated
  4. bipennes
  5. bipenniform
  6. bipennis
  7. bipentacene
  8. bipentacenes
  9. bipenton
  10. bipentons
  11. bipeptide

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