didymous
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of didymous
1785–95; < Greek dídymos twin, double, (akin to dís twice, double); -ous
Example Sentences
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Seeds two, roundish, joined into a didymous shape, downy.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland by Linn?, Carl von
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 Gray, Asa
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 Gray, Asa
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 Gray, Asa
Stamens are three and anthers didymous and small.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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