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Example sentences for "bifurcate"

Lexicographically close words:
bifid; bifilar; bifore; biforn; biftek; bifurcated; bifurcates; bifurcating; bifurcation; bifurcations
  1. The chrysalids of the Papilionidæ, or swallowtail butterflies, are held in place by girdles, and generally are bifurcate or cleft at the upper end (Fig.

  2. The caterpillars of the swallowtail butterflies are provided with a bifurcate or forked organ, generally yellow in color, which is protruded from an opening in the skin back of the head, and which emits a powerful odor (Fig.

  3. The Tupi terminology furnished by the same writer does not suggest the bifurcate feature.

  4. In North America, the non-exogamous tribes are either bifurcating but fail to merge the collateral and lineal lines or neither bifurcate nor merge.

  5. Thus, over and above the usual trait of bifurcate merging, we find the feature that a grandparent and grandchild use a common term in addressing each other.

  6. We find it in association with the Hungarian and Chukchee terminologies, both of which lack the Dakota principle, and it occurs with the Hawaiian no less than the vast majority of bifurcate systems.

  7. In short, the generation factor which is fundamental in the Hawaiian scheme and only modified by dichotomy in the usual type of bifurcate merging schemes is here overridden by some other factor.

  8. In short, where the levirate-polygyny usages coexist with exogamy, it would be rash to derive a merging and bifurcate nomenclature from the former rather than from the latter.

  9. A light which is broader than the apex but narrower than the base of an opaque pyramidal body placed in front of it, will cause that pyramid to cast a shadow of bifurcate form and various degrees of depth.

  10. Where the shadow-rays from an opaque pyramidal body are intercepted they will cast a shadow of bifurcate outline and various depth at the points.

  11. The arms bifurcate at the end of the third radial, and the first radial becomes in Antedon rosacea (though not in all species of Antedon) concealed from the surface by the growth of the centro-dorsal plate.

  12. These grooves, after leaving the otolithic vesicle, bifurcate and pass to the eight rows of paddles.

  13. The surface of the outermost shell is densely covered with numerous arborescent by-spines, which bifurcate from three to four times, and are three-sided pyramidal at the base, and twice as long as the distance between each two shells.

  14. From the single vessel with bifurcate spout we may pass to others in which there are two openings joined together by a handle.

  15. The largest class comprises those with the bifurcate spout, which serves at the same time for a handle.

  16. In the first they bifurcate a short distance from the attachment to the basal joint of the leg, and extend outward and downward as two simple, slender tubes, or ribbon-like filaments.

  17. In the second form they bifurcate in the same mariner, but the two branches are spirals.

  18. Arising from the same part of the coxopodite with this epipodite is the bifurcate spiral branchia which has not been seen in this form in other trilobites.

  19. I conceive that this bifurcate method is not really philosophical or valuable: but that is not our business here.

  20. Yet, I have no doubt that this bifurcate method was admired by some of the philosophers of Plato's time, as a clever and effective philosophical invention.

  21. Among other notions which are analysed by the bifurcate division here exhibited, is that of getting by contest (Agonistic, previously given as a division of Ktetic).

  22. In order to limit the number of genera to be compared with Tantalophis, only those xenodontines having apical pits and bifurcate hemipenis are considered.

  23. Most discussions of classification make reference to the so-called bifurcate scheme of division as the only one by which exhaustive division can be surely achieved.


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