bipennated
/baɪˈpɛneɪtɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having two shafts, blades, petals, or extensions from a single central point or body.
Example Sentences
- "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."