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Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration. -- n.

Pertaining to a biceps muscle; as, bicipital furrows, the depressions on either side of the biceps of the arm.

Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower is an example.

Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body.

Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coördinates.

Of or pertaining to the bile.

Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. "Smooth as is a billiard ball." B. Jonson.

Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

Pertaining to, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).

Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.

Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular vision.

Consisting of two terms; pertaining to binomials; as, a binomial root.

Of or pertaining to two names; binomial.

Of or pertaining to biodynamics, or the doctrine of vital forces or energy.

Pertaining to biogenesis.

Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography. -- Bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, bioplasm.

Pertaining to psychical phenomena in their relation to the living organism or to the general phenomena of life.

Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other.

Pertaining to a biped.