Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mathematics, a plane curve having two folia or depressions. See cut under
bitangent .
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Examples
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Mediocalar bifolium – from the cloud forests of New Guinea and some adjacent islands.
NHOS Orchid Show 2009
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Mediocalar bifolium – from the cloud forests of New Guinea and some adjacent islands.
Unbooks 2009
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Other common species include: Rubus saxatilis, Maianthemum bifolium, Lathyrus vernus, Galium septentrionale, Equisetum sylvaticum and Angelica sylvestris.
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The watermark BUDGEN | 1804 | appears both on this initial bifolium and on the bifolium paginated 243/4 and 257/8.
Introduction 2002
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These are cases of variation rather than of malformation, but are none the less curious, or sometimes perplexing; thus, Lapeyrouse described, in his 'Supplement à la flore des Pyrenées,' p. 27, under the name _Potamogeton bifolium_, a plant which Mr. Bentham subsequently discovered to be nothing but a flowerless variety of _Vicia Faba_ distorted by its growth in water. [
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
tumbel commented on the word bifolium
"Bookmarks or letters found within books may be considered as another form of palimpsest, as the bifolium bookmark has a noticeable effect on the reading experience of the book wherein it was inserted"
June 28, 2014