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Bilateral

adjective

Having identical parts on each side of an axis. Synonyms: bilaterally symmetric, bilaterally symmetrical, isobilateral.

Affecting or undertaken by two parties.

Having two sides or parts. Synonym: two-sided.

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... outwards from a centre; second, there is the articulated type of life,—life embodied in a form composed, as in the worms, crustaceans, and insects, of a series of rings united by their edges, but more or less moveable on each other; third, there is the bilateral or molluscan type of life,—life embodied in a form in which there is a duality of corresponding parts, ranged, as in the cuttle-fishes, the clams, and the snails, on the sides of a central axis or plane; and fourth, there is the vertebrate type of life,—life ...

— The Testimony of the Rocks - or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed • Hugh Miller

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