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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm)

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural biceps; also bicepses) Etymology: New Latin bicipit-, biceps, from Latin, two-headed, from bi- + capit-, caput head — more at head Date: 1634 a muscle having two heads: as a. the large flexor muscle of the front of the upper arm b. the large flexor muscle of the back of the upper leg

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a muscle having two heads or attachments, esp. the one which bends the elbow. Etymology: L, = two-headed, formed as BI- + - ceps f. caput head

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Biceps Bi"ceps, n. [L., two-headed; bis twice + caput head. See Capital.] (Anat.) A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(biceps) Your biceps are the large muscles at the front of the upper part of your arms. N-COUNT: usu pl

Moby Thesaurus

adductor, arm, buccinator, elbow, forearm, gemellus, gluteus maximus, infraspinatus, intercostal, latissimus dorsi, levator, masseter, mentalis, mylohyoid, nasalis, oblique, occipitalis, omohyoid, pectineus, pectoralis, peroneus, sphincter, tensor, trapezius, triceps, upper arm, wrist