Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Divided into two parts; double; twofold. Specifically — In botany, pointing in two ways, or arranged in two opposite rows, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Twofold; arranged in two rows.
- adj. (Bot.) Pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch; in two vertical rows.
Examples
“The _spikelets_ are large about 1/4 inch long cuneate and bifarious.”
“Stems are many, tufted, slender, creeping and rooting, or ascending and suberect, simple or branched, 6 to 20 inches long and leafy and leaves bifarious and divaricate.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bifarious’.
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
bywoner, byssus, byssiferous, byssaceous, byrnie, butyric, butyraceous, buttery, buteonine, bunting, burdet, broma and 582 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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In ambiguity
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
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Botanical Terms
Terms used in botany
contabescence, effloresce, foliate, acervate, nuciform, feracious, fructuous, bifarious, serotinous, sative, demiss, tardive and 168 more...
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Mad Words
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