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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Symmetrical arrangement, as of an organism or a body part, along a central axis, so that the body is divided into equivalent right and left halves by only one plane.
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- noun the property of being
symmetrical about avertical plane - noun biology the characteristic, in
animals , of being symmetric about a plane running fromhead totail
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- noun the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane
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