"bigonial" meaning in English

See bigonial in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: bi- + gonia + -al Etymology templates: {{confix|en|bi|gonia|al}} bi- + gonia + -al Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} bigonial (not comparable)
  1. Pertaining to both gonia, especially to an imaginary line between them. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: bigoniac

Download JSON data for bigonial meaning in English (2.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bi",
        "3": "gonia",
        "4": "al"
      },
      "expansion": "bi- + gonia + -al",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "bi- + gonia + -al",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "bigonial (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with bi-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -al",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1913, Henry Lorenz Viereck, New Genus and Species of Hymenoptera of the Family Braconidae from Panama, page 90",
          "text": "Broadening of the bigonial diameter independent of these factors is due almost entirely to the action of the masseters, which in some instances results in a marked eversion of the lower portion of the jaw at the angle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, page 56",
          "text": "The bigonial breadth in absolute figures is slightly larger in the members of more recent than in those of old American ancestry, and identical in the latter with that of the cultured old Americans at large.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Howard Voas Meredith, Virginia B. Knott, Childhood Changes of Head, Face and Dentition, page 152",
          "text": "The interrelationship of these factors, with specific reference to the plane of bigonial diameter, is indicated by the following proportion:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Thomas M. Graber, Robert L. Vanarsdall, Orthodontics: Current Principles and Techniques, page 49",
          "text": "This patient's bigonial width was greater than the upper face width and out of proportion with the “rule of fifths.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Pertaining to both gonia, especially to an imaginary line between them."
      ],
      "id": "en-bigonial-en-adj-Gv2LhjA7",
      "links": [
        [
          "gonia",
          "gonion"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bigoniac"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bigonial"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bi",
        "3": "gonia",
        "4": "al"
      },
      "expansion": "bi- + gonia + -al",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "bi- + gonia + -al",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "bigonial (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with bi-",
        "English terms suffixed with -al",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1913, Henry Lorenz Viereck, New Genus and Species of Hymenoptera of the Family Braconidae from Panama, page 90",
          "text": "Broadening of the bigonial diameter independent of these factors is due almost entirely to the action of the masseters, which in some instances results in a marked eversion of the lower portion of the jaw at the angle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, page 56",
          "text": "The bigonial breadth in absolute figures is slightly larger in the members of more recent than in those of old American ancestry, and identical in the latter with that of the cultured old Americans at large.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Howard Voas Meredith, Virginia B. Knott, Childhood Changes of Head, Face and Dentition, page 152",
          "text": "The interrelationship of these factors, with specific reference to the plane of bigonial diameter, is indicated by the following proportion:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Thomas M. Graber, Robert L. Vanarsdall, Orthodontics: Current Principles and Techniques, page 49",
          "text": "This patient's bigonial width was greater than the upper face width and out of proportion with the “rule of fifths.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Pertaining to both gonia, especially to an imaginary line between them."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gonia",
          "gonion"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bigoniac"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bigonial"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.