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  • Bivalved

    With two valves.  

  • Biturbinate

    3-dimensional shape, widest in middle, and tapering/conical towards both ends [obscure term].  

  • Bithecate

    (Of anthers) with two cells or chambers.  

  • Biternate

    Biternate

    Compound ternate, the ternate divisions themselves divided into threes. A compound leaf divided in threes, whose leaflets are in tum divided in pairs. The principal divisions three, each bearing three leaflets.  

  • Bitegmic

    Of an ovule, with two integuments.  

  • Bisulcate

    With two grooves.  

  • Bisexual

    Bisexual

    Having both sexes in the same flower, or in the same inflorescence. Having both sexual reproductive structures (male and female) produced on the same plant. With two sexes in the same inflorescence or flower. Of a flower, with both male (stamens) and female (carpels) parts in the same flower. Having both sexual reproductive structures (male…

  • Biserrate

    (Of leaf margins) serrate, but with alternating teeth of two different sizes; or when large serrations are themselves serrate. Doubly serrate.  

  • Biseriate

    In two series or whorls; (Of hairs) with two parallel and adjacent rows of cells.  

  • Bisegmented

    Partly divided in two.  

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