bilaterally symmetric

1. 1.

   having identical parts on each side of an axis

   Synonymsbilateralisobilateralbilaterally symmetrical

   Similarsymmetrical

Questions about bilaterally symmetric

What does bilaterally symmetric mean?

bilaterally symmetric means "having identical parts on each side of an axis".

What is another word for bilaterally symmetric?

Close synonyms include bilateral, isobilateral, bilaterally symmetrical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bilaterally symmetric a common word?

bilaterally symmetric is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.