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didymous

American  
[did-uh-muhs] / ˈdɪd ə məs /

adjective

Botany.
  1. occurring in pairs; paired; twin.


didymous British  
/ ˈdɪdɪməs /

adjective

  1. biology in pairs or in two parts

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of didymous

1785–95; < Greek dídymos twin, double, (akin to dís twice, double); see -ous


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Stamens are three and anthers didymous and small.

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

Filament slender; anther 2-celled, didymous; the cells dehiscent transversely; pollen-grains large, spherical, muricate.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Pod top-shaped, globular, or didymous, thin, its summit or upper half free from and projecting beyond the tube of the calyx, loculicidal across the top.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Fruit didymous, the 2 carpels each splitting into two 1-seeded nutlets; style elongated; flowers scattered, large.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Seeds two, roundish, joined into a didymous shape, downy.

From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland by Carl von Linn?

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