biserial

[bahy-seer-ee-uhl]

adjective

Statistics.

1. of or relating to the correlation between two sets of measurements, one set of which is limited to one of two values.

Other Word Forms

• biserially adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of biserial¹

First recorded in 1830–40; bi- ¹ + serial

Example Sentences

The thecae in several of the families are occasionally provided with spines or lateral processes: the spines are especially conspicuous at the base in some biserial forms: in the Lasiograptidae the lateral processes originate a marginal meshwork surrounding the polypary.

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Biserial, bī-sē′ri-al, adj. arranged in two series or rows.

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C. Viguier has divided the starfish into: Ast�ries ambulacraires, with plates of ambulacral origin prominent in the mouth-skeleton, pedicellariae stalked, and straight or crossed, podial pores usually quadriserial; Ast�ries adambulacraires, with adambulacrals prominent in the mouth-skeleton, pedicellariae sessile, and forcipiform or valvular, podial pores usually biserial.

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Biserial, or Biseriate, occupying two rows, one within the other.

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Serial, or Seriate, in rows; as biserial, in two rows, &c.

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