Meaning of bipennated | Babel Free
/baɪˈpɛneɪtɪd/Definitions
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Having two wings. not-comparable
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Having two shafts, blades, petals, or extensions from a single central point or body. not-comparable
Examples
“bipennated insects”
“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.”
“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 .”
“Smash cupid, the bipennated buooooy, the little farceur, whilst he is yet a child' somther him before he has time to become a tremendous Titan in the plenitude of his power to do for you; smother him, oh! some-other him, and live to see how jolly miserable your light of other days will make some other man!”
“Very branching, branches bipennated, and very close, nearly imbricated .”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Bipennated leaves with small leaflets;”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.