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biplane aircraft, typically of early design, having two sets of wings fixed at different levels, especially in a vertical stack with the fuselage included between them. See airplane .

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

biplane XX. f. BI- + PLANE3.

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biplane n. an airplane that has two pairs of wings attached at different levels, especially one pair of wings above the fuselage and one pair below.

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