binate
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of binate
1800–10; < New Latin bīnātus, apparently extracted from Late Latin combīnātus yoked together. See bin-, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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I certainly knew the two numbers I’d played; I knew I’d told him to com- binate only one of them.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Leaves binate, from 3 to 7 cm. long; hypoderm inconspicuous; resin-ducts external.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
The spikelets are binate, one sessile and the other pedicelled.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Leaves ternate or binate, from 10 to 15 cm. long; resin-ducts medial or with an occasional internal duct, hypoderm biform.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
Leaves binate, from 10 to 20 cm. long, stout and rigid; resin-ducts medial, hypoderm multiform, the inner cells gradually larger, remarkably large in the angles of the leaf.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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