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Bipartite adj.

Being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty.

Divided into two parts almost to the base, as a leaf; consisting of two parts or subdivisions.

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Etymology of 'Bipartite'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or awned, 5-nerved, lateral nerves being marginal and hairy. The third glume is oblong or oblong ovate, acute, 5-nerved, paleate, male; palea is very short and small, bipartite. The fourth glume is as long as the third and the second, oblong or ovate, coriaceous, narrowed into a straight terminal awn, paleate and bisexual; palea is oblong, coriaceous and 2-nerved. Lodicules are cuneate. ...

— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses • Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar

... even-meat coena. That is to say, our Saxon precursors were satisfied as a rule with two repasts daily, but to this in more luxurious times were added the supper and even the rear-supper, the latter being, so far as we know, a second course or dessert and the bipartite collation corresponding to the modern late dinner. But it is one of those strange survivals of ancient manners which people practise without any consciousness of the fact, which is at the root of the fashion, which ...

— Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine • William Carew Hazlitt