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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of bifolium.

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Examples

  • Her eyes were roaming the length of his shelves, and the rack where the largest finished membranes were draped, cut, and trimmed to order into the great bifolia intended for some massive lectern Bible.

    The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

  • Her eyes were roaming the length of his shelves, and the rack where the largest finished membranes were draped, cut, and trimmed to order into the great bifolia intended for some massive lectern Bible.

    The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

  • She needed the lamp in order to see into the dark corners of the room, where two or three wooden chests housed a miscellany of offcuts, faulty pieces worth saving for smaller uses, and the finished gatherings of leaves ready for use, from a few great bifolia to the little, narrow, sixteen-leaf foldings used for small grammars or schooling texts.

    The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

  • She needed the lamp in order to see into the dark corners of the room, where two or three wooden chests housed a miscellany of offcuts, faulty pieces worth saving for smaller uses, and the finished gatherings of leaves ready for use, from a few great bifolia to the little, narrow, sixteen-leaf foldings used for small grammars or schooling texts.

    The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

  • _Scilla bifolia_, _Gagea arvensis_, and _Viola odorata_ may be added to the list of synanthic plants.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • The tufted convallaria bifolia, or bead-ruby, is one of our most common wood plants, very much like that of Europe, although the flowerets are larger.

    Rural Hours 1887

  • I have ventured to suggest then that the closing of flowers may have reference to the habits of insects, and it may be observed also in support of this, that wind-fertilised flowers do not sleep; and that many of those flowers which attract insects by smell, open and emit their scent at particular hours; thus Hesperis matronalis and Lychnis vespertina smell in the evening, and Orchis bifolia is particularly sweet at night.

    The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873

  • But, on the other hand, there are many that rejoice in being transferred to a garden, especially O. maculata, O. mascula, O. pyramidalis, and the Butterfly Orchis of both kinds (Habenaria bifolia and chlorantha).

    The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

  • Smilacina bifolia (false Solomon's-seal), 1857, and Chesuncook woods, 1853.

    The Maine Woods 1858

  • H. bifolia; the pollen-masses and stigma differ more than in most of the best species of Orchis.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

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