Dividing into two parts or sections; capable of being separated into two equal or distinct portions.
From Latin bi- (two) + partient (dividing), derived from partiri (to divide). The term emerged in technical contexts to describe things that naturally or mechanically split into two components.
This word is rarely used today, but it appears in older botanical and anatomical texts to describe organisms that literally split themselves into two parts—some jellyfish and sea creatures are bipartient reproducers!
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