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Definition of Bireme

Bireme
Bireme Bi"reme, n. [L. biremis; bis twice + remus oar: cf. F. bir[`e]me.] An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.

Meaning of Bireme from wikipedia

- A bireme (/ˈbaɪriːm/, BY-reem) is an ancient oared warship (galley) with two superimposed rows of oars on each side. Biremes were long vessels built for...
- The Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information or BIREME was founded in São Paulo in 1967 as the Biblioteca Regional de Medicina...
- A bireme is an ancient galley warship with two decks of oars. Bireme may also refer to: Bireme (horse), British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare best...
- ship powered by oarsmen, sometimes stacked in multiple levels such as biremes or triremes, and many of which also had sails. Initial efforts of the Romans...
- Bireme (2 May 1977 – 10 January 2002) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare best known for winning the classic Epsom Oaks in 1980. After winning...
- the suffix -reme from rēmus, "oar". A monoreme has one bank of oars, a bireme two, and a trireme three. A human-powered oared vessel is not practically...
- Ivlia (bireme) is a modern reconstruction of an ancient Gr**** rowing warship (galley) with oars at two levels, and is an example of experimental archaeology...
- single row of 25 oars on each side (i.e., a single-banked boat), and of the bireme (Ancient Gr****: διήρης, diērēs), a warship with two banks of oars, of Phoenician...
- the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME). SciELO provides a portal that integrates and provides access to all of...
- that of "double-banking", i.e., that the quadrireme was derived from a bireme (warship with two rows of oars) by placing two oarsmen on each oar, the...