biplicate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Based on Latin bis (“twice”) + plicātus (“folded”). Compare bifurcate.
Adjective[edit]
biplicate (not comparable)
- Twice folded together.
- 1849, Asa Gray, The Genera of the Plants of the United States:
- COTYLEDONS very broad, foliaceous, cordate, biplicate and infolded
References[edit]
- “biplicate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.