bidichotomous

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adjective

Dividing or branching first into two branches, and then (in at least one of those branches) into two more branches.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. especiallyDividing or branching first into two branches, and then (in at least one of those branches) into two more branches.

    [...] bidichotomous type is subordinate [...]

    1988, Jurjiz Alexander Jeletzky, Edwin Kemper, Comparative Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Valanginian ..., page 147
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    [...] two primaries immediately preceding it unite on the umbilical shoulder forming a bidichotomous bundle. The periphery is gently rounded and the cast shows a slight ventral groove, comparatively broad and shallow, on the peripheral [...]

    1925, Ernest Neaverson, Ammonites from the Upper Kimmeridge Clay, page 25

    [...] bidichotomous or polyptychitid rib bundles appears rather early in the ontogeny of T. elegans.

    1978, Bulletin, numbers 298-302, Geological Survey of Canada, page 44
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