binate
Americanadjective
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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
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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, slender, from 15 to 20 cm. long, the hypoderm of uniform thick-walled cells, resin-ducts medial, or with internal or septal ducts, endoderm-cells very unequal in size, some of them large.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
The spikes are very short at the ends of very fine branches, solitary, binate or fascicled, with very fragile rachis; joints are very short, slender with cupular tips.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
The spikelets are linear-lanceolate, solitary or in distant pairs, glabrous or ciliate, pedicelled and when binate the upper pedicel often longer than the spikelets, usually spreading and not appressed to the rachis.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Leaves binate, from 3 to 5 cm. long; resin-ducts medial, hypoderm biform.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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