binate

American  

[bahy-neyt] / ˈbaɪ neɪt /

adjective

Botany.

1. produced or borne in pairs; double.

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binate British  

/ ˈbaɪˌneɪt /

adjective

1. botany occurring in two parts or in pairs

   binate leaves

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Other Word Forms

• binately adverb

Etymology

Origin of binate

1800–10; < New Latin bīnātus, apparently extracted from Late Latin combīnātus yoked together. See bin-, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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

Trachys.Spikelets binate and all round the rachis, 3-glumed, glumes echinate 14.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Leaves binate, sometimes ternate, from 15 to 30 cm. long, rigid, erect; hypoderm of uniform thick-walled cells; resin-ducts of remarkable size, septal, or not quite touching the endoderm and technically external.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

Leaves binate, from 12 to 17 cm. long; resin-ducts external or external and medial; hypoderm uniform and inconspicuous.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell

Leaves binate, rarely ternate, from 12 to 20 cm. long, slender and pliant; hypoderm inconspicuous; resin-ducts external.

From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell