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Definition of Isobilateral
1. Adjective. Having identical parts on each side of an axis.
Similar to: Symmetric, Symmetrical
Derivative terms: Bilaterality
Lexicographical Neighbors of Isobilateral
Literary usage of Isobilateral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Course of Practical Instruction in Botany by Frederick Orpen Bower (1891)
"An actual transition from the bifacial to the isobilateral type of structure of
the leaf may be traced in Eucalyptus globulus and other species, ..."
2. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"Similarly, an isobilateral member may become dorsiventral. The most familar
instance of this is the development of the dorsiventral shoot of Marchantia from ..."
3. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Sydney Howard Vines (1886)
"To the former group belong the great majority of organs which are physiologically
radial, as well as isobilateral organs such as the Iris-leaves ; to the ..."
4. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1905)
"31), a Fuchsia, a six-petalled Sedum, and a Gentian are all regular, but the
Crucifer is also isobilateral; it can be divided into symmetrical halves in two ..."
5. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"... and three have been proposed, as follows: (1) actinomorphic, in which the
planes of symmetry are as numerous as the members of a cycle; (2) isobilateral ..."
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