bimembral
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin bis (“twice”) + membrum (“member”).
Adjective edit
bimembral (not comparable)
- (grammar) Having two members.
- 1858, Josiah Willard Gibbs, A Latin Analyst on Modern Philological Principles:
- This will be more easily apprehended, if we consider that all combination is bimembral; i. e. consists of two members, one of which is subordinated to the other by the intonation, and thus becomes compacted with it […]