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Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.
Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.
A plant which exists or lasts for two years.
Once in two years.
A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.
A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.
A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals.
Alt. of Beestings
Having the opposite surfaces alike.
Twofold; arranged in two rows.
Pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch; in two vertical rows.
In a bifarious manner.
Bearing fruit twice a year.
A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple.
A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng.
Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.
See Bifid.
Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance.
Flabellate on both sides.
Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.