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biseriate

[ bahy-seer-ee-it, ‑-eyt ]

adjective

, Botany.
  1. arranged in two rows; arranged in two cycles or whorls.


biseriate

/ ˌbaɪˈsɪərɪɪt /

adjective

  1. (of plant parts, such as petals) arranged in two whorls, cycles, rows, or series
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • bi·seri·ate·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of biseriate1

First recorded in 1845–50; bi- 1( def ) + seriate ( def )
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Example Sentences

Biserial, or Biseriate, occupying two rows, one within the other.

Spikelets are 2-flowered, narrow, biseriate, unilateral, imbricate on the rachis of a solitary spike; the rachilla is elongate between the flowering glumes and produced beyond them and terminates in a rudimentary awned glume.

The spikelets are compressed laterally, sessile or obscurely pedicelled, imbricate, alternately biseriate on the ventral side of the rachis, 1-flowered; the rachilla is produced into a bristle behind the palea, with or without a minute glume.

Spikelets are unilateral, sessile, crowded, biseriate on a slender rachis with four to six glumes and 1 to 3-flowered; the rachilla is produced and disarticulating above the empty glumes.

The spikelets are green or purplish, 3-awned, unilaterally biseriate on the outside of the rachis, 1/10 inch excluding the awn; the rachilla is bearded at the base, but is shorter than the third glume and bears two barren glumes.

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