Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of or arranged in two series or rows; bi-farious; distichous. Also
biseriate . - In the Crinoidea, or encrinites, noting a double arrangement, in the arms, of interlocking plates beveled toward each other and thickened on the margins of the arms. Contrasted with uniserial.
- noun In decorative art, a double series in which the elements face toward each other, look away from each other, or alternately look toward or away from each other.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective In two rows or series.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Arranged in two
series .
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Examples
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When they are arranged in uniserial or biserial rows the genital ducts open into or near the branchial grooves in the region of the pharynx and in a corresponding position in the post-branchial region.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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In their disposition they are either uniserial, biserial or multiserial.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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When the excavations on the acropolis were begun, no traces of the biserial rows of rooms were detected, although the remains of the walls were traceable.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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Skeleton of the breast-fin of Ceratodus (biserial feathered skeleton).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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We find the same biserial primitive fin more or less preserved in the fossilised remains of the earliest Selachii (Figure 2.248), Ganoids
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Both the breast-fin and the belly-fin are flat oval paddles, in which we find a biserial cartilaginous skeleton (Figure 2.336).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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