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bireme

/ˈbaɪˌriːm/

bireme noun: an ancient galley having two banks of oars, one above the other.

Noun

bireme (plural biremes)

  1. (historical) An ancient galley having two banks of oars, one above the other.

Proper noun capitalized: BIREME

BIREME

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Forms of bireme

pluralbiremes

Origin of bireme

Learned borrowing from Latin birēmis.

Borrowed from Portuguese BIREME.

Questions about bireme

What does bireme mean?
Bireme means an ancient galley having two banks of oars, one above the other.
What part of speech is bireme?
Bireme can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bireme?
Bireme is pronounced /ˈbaɪˌriːm/.
What is the plural of bireme?
The plural of bireme is biremes.

Words near bireme in the dictionary

  1. birefringently
  2. biregional
  3. biregular
  4. biregularity
  5. biregularly
  6. bireme
  7. biremes
  8. Biren
  9. Birenbaum
  10. Birenbaums
  11. Birendranagar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bireme (page history and authors); BIREME (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.

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