Helen Fenton

Birch: Definition and part of speech

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Birch

  1. a. Of or pertaining to the birch; birchen.
  2. n. A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).
  3. n. The wood or timber of the birch.
  4. n. A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging.
  5. n. A birch-bark canoe.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Biparietal: Definition and part of speech

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Biparietal

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bipartient: Definition and part of speech

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Bipartient

  1. n. A number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder.
  2. p. pr. Dividing into two parts.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bipartite: Definition and part of speech

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Bipartite

  1. a. Divided into two parts almost to the base, as a leaf; consisting of two parts or subdivisions.
  2. a. Being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.