Definition of Biramous. Meaning of Biramous. Synonyms of Biramous

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Definition of Biramous

Biramous
Biramous Bi*ra"mous, a. [Pref. bi- + ramous.] (Biol.) Having, or consisting of, two branches.

Meaning of Biramous from wikipedia

- arthropods may be either biramous or uniramous. A uniramous limb comprises a single series of segments attached end-to-end. A biramous limb, however, branches...
- (armor plate) and bearing a pair of biramous limbs. However, whether the ancestral limb was uniramous or biramous is far from a settled debate. This Ur-arthropod...
- arthropods, such as insects, myriapods and chelicerates, by the possession of biramous (two-parted) limbs, and by their larval forms, such as the nauplius stage...
- (unbranched) antenna-like structures, followed by one or more pairs of biramous (having two major branches) leg-like structures, as seen in some modern...
- lacks clear segmentation (arthrodization). Along the body are pairs of biramous appendages, the counts of which differ between species (Isoxys curvirostratus...
- multisegmented head, a hypostome/labrum complex, and by bearing pairs of segmented biramous limbs. The clade contains all living arthropods (i.e. chelicerates and...
- homologized to the outer gill branch and inner leg branch of arthropod biramous limbs seen in Marrella, trilobites, and crustaceans. Zhang and Briggs (2007)...
- rigid pleotelson. The first five abdominal segments each bear a pair of biramous (branching in two) pleopods (lamellar structures which serve the function...
- secondarily. The head bears two pairs of antennae, the first of which is often biramous (branching into two parts) and the second pair bear exopods (outer branches)...
- appendages are treated as antennae, and the other appendages on head are biramous. The mouth opens on the ventral surface in front of the second pair of...