Noun: bipennis
| Singular | bipennis |
| Plural | bipennes |
Sample Sentences
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Bipennis... A twibill, axe, or twall, sharpe on both sides, wherewith carpenters make mortaises: it was in old time a weapon [1937, Starnes, D. T., “Bilingual Dictionaries of Shakespeare’s Day”, in PMLA, volume 52, number 4, page 1009:]
Nouns inflected like bipennis
mythopoiesis,
ketoacidosis,
carcinomatosis,
macropinocytosis,
syrtis,
glomerulosclerosis,
anagenesis,
cryptanalysis,
sepsis,
subhypothesis,
neurotoxocariasis,
dysmorphosis,
preexapophysis,
neurolipidosis,
diegesis,
chocolate nemesis,
carcinogenesis,
eccyesis,
qualitative analysis,
epicranial aponeurosis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin bipennis (“two-winged”). See: Latin Nouns '
bipennis'.