bipennated

alternative bipennate

1. not comparableHaving two wings.

   bipennated insects

   1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC

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   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.

   1768, William Derham, Physico-theology, page 366

   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 .

   1836, “Armenian apothegms”, in The Chinese Repository, page 427

   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!

   1870, Hugh Rowley, Gamosagammon; or, Hints on Hymen, page 45

2. not comparableHaving two shafts, blades, petals, or extensions from a single central point or body.

   Bipennated leaves with small leaflets;

   1967, Biochemical Genetics - Volume 12, page 183

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   Very branching, branches bipennated, and very close, nearly imbricated .

   1824, (M., Jean Vincent Félix, Corallina; Or, a Classical Arrangement of Flexible Coralline Polypidoms, page 129

   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.

   1850, The Veterinarian: A Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science, page 71

   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.

   1905, Richard Bell, My Strange Pets and Other Memories of Country Life, page 26

   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.

   1926, Alfred Brazier Howell, Anatomy of the Wood Rat, page 63