BPage 239
- English Word Bivalent Definition Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad.
- English Word Bivalve Definition A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.
- English Word Bivalve Definition A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.
- English Word Bivalve Definition Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.
- English Word Bivalved Definition Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.
- English Word Bivalvous Definition Bivalvular.
- English Word Bivalvular Definition Having two valves.
- English Word Bivaulted Definition Having two vaults or arches.
- English Word Bivector Definition A term made up of the two parts / + /1 /-1, where / and /1 are vectors.
- English Word Biventral Definition Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.
- English Word Bivial Definition Of or relating to the bivium.
- English Word Bivious Definition Having, or leading, two ways.
- English Word Bivium Definition One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.
- English Word Bivouac Definition The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.
- English Word Bivouac Definition An encampment for the night without tents or covering.
- English Word Bivouac Definition To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.
- English Word Bivouac Definition To encamp for the night without tents or covering.
- English Word Bivouacked Definition of Bivouac
- English Word Bivouacking Definition of Bivouac
- English Word Biweekly Definition Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly.