Bipennate

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or having the nature of a muscle, the fibres of which attach to a tendon on two sides (as a feather barbed on both sides). not-comparable

    "It then follows that bipennate muscles generate even more force than unipennate ones of similar volume, and the force increases with the angle of pennation."

  2. 2
    Bipinnate (pinnate and having a pinnate leaflet). not-comparable

    "Its bipennate leaves are composed of a slightly straightened general petiole, of four partial petioles, situated, two at the extremity of the proceeding, and convergent, two a little lower, and growing almost at right angles; each of them bearing more than twenty pairs of small horizontal petioles."

  3. 3
    Having two wings; bipennated. not-comparable

Example

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"It then follows that bipennate muscles generate even more force than unipennate ones of similar volume, and the force increases with the angle of pennation."

Etymology

From bi- + pennate.

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