dipleuran.
/dʌɪˈplʊərə/ Biology.
With plural agreement. Organic forms with bilateral symmetry having a single pair of antimeres or corresponding opposite parts.
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1883 P. Geddes in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 844/2 The Zygopleura include forms bilaterally symmetrical in the strictest sense, in which not more than two radial planes, and these at right angles to each other, are present. Haeckel again divides these, according to the number of antimeres, into Tetrapleura and Dipleura.
Derivatives
diˈpleural adj. zygopleural with only two antimeres.
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1883 P. Geddes in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 844/2 The term bilateral..must be rigidly restricted..to the Centropipeda if not indeed to dipleural forms.
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diˈpleuric adj. having right and left sides; exhibiting bilateral symmetry.
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