bispiraled

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adjective

Possessing two spirals or helices.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivebispiraled (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePossessing two spirals or helices.

    In all of the Jubulaceae there is normally a single spiral (this is also normally the case in Lejeuneaceae, but in some forms the spiral may be lost, while a few forms may have occasional bispiraled elaters).

    1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6

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