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

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.

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The spikelets are oblong, acute, binate, one pedicel being shorter than the other, usually appressed to the rachis and not spreading.

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But in my variety the increase of the number of the leaflets may extend to these primary organs, and make them binate or even ternate.

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Leaves binate, ternate, or both, from 10 to 15 cm. long, stout and rigid; resin-ducts external, or external and medial.

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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.

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