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| Noun | 1. One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.[Websters]. | |
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Date "BIVIUM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Etymology:Bivium \Biv"i*um\, noun. [Latin expression, place with two ways. See Bivious.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: BIVIUM
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| Antiquities | Bivium. A road or street which branches into two forks (Plin. H.N. vi. 32; Verg. Aen. ix. 238); at the point of divergence between two such roads or streets in the town of Pompeii there is always found a fountain, as in the example here given, which represents a bivium in that city. (references) | ||
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