BIPARTITE (from the

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• LAT

Lat. bi-, two, and partire, to

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• DIVIDE

divide)  . In a general sense, the word means having two corresponding parts or in duplicate . In geometry, a bipartite curve consists of two distinct branches (see PARABOLA, figs . 3, 5) . In botany, the word is applied to leaves divided into two parts near the base . A bipartient factor is a number whose square exactly divides another number . In zoology, the Bipartiti was a name given by P . A . Latreille to a group of carnivorous Coleoptera .