Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In echinoderms, the ambulacra of the two posterior arms or rays taken together and distinguished from the three anterior rays collectively. See
trivium , and cut underSpatangoida .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (
trivium ), which includes three ambulacra.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology One side of an
echinoderm , including apair ofambulacra , in distinction from the opposite side (trivium ), which includes three ambulacra.
Etymologies
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Latin, a place with two ways. See bivious.
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Here, to be sure, is a very _bivium_ of perplexities.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various
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