bipennate English

Meaning bipennate meaning

What does bipennate mean?

bipennate adjective

— (medicine, anatomy, zoology) 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).

— (botany, of leaves) Bipinnate (pinnate and having a pinnate leaflet).

— of a muscle attached to a tendon on two sides