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Meaning of bivalent vertices

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I am studying some simple graph theory, and I'm stuck on the word bivalent vertices. I know that bivalent means that something in the lines of something taking one value out of two possible values. But what does it mean in graph theory?

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According to my supervisor, that a vertex is bivalent means that it has only two connected edges.

Edit: Also see this.

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