Definition of "biremes" []

• Plural form of bireme. (noun)

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• "Ships of this kind, which the Greeks called "biremes," are represented in Sennacherib's sculptures as employed by the inhabitants of a Phoenician city, who fly in them at the moment when their town is captured, and so escape their enemy. ["
• "These days they man fully decked triremes and biremes-even quinqueremes!"
• "They numbered three hundred decked war galleys of three or more banks, over one hundred undecked two-banker biremes, and fifteen hundred transports stuffed with troops and marines."