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bivium

bivium noun: one side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.

Noun

bivium (plural bivia)

  1. One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.

Forms of bivium

pluralbivia

Origin of bivium

Borrowed from Latin bivium (“a place with two ways”).

Words formed from bivium

Questions about bivium

What does bivium mean?
Bivium means one side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.
What part of speech is bivium?
Bivium is a noun.
What is the plural of bivium?
The plural of bivium is bivia.

Words near bivium in the dictionary

  1. bivisible
  2. bivisibles
  3. bivittate
  4. bivittoside
  5. bivittosides
  6. bivium
  7. bivoac
  8. bivocal
  9. bivocals
  10. Bivolari
  11. bivoltin

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