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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Arranged or occurring in pairs; twin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In botany, twofold; twin; growing double, as the fruits of umbelliferous plants, the anthers of bedstraw, or the tubers of some orchids.
  2. In zoology, twain; paired: applied to two spots, spines, tubercles, etc., when they form a pair touching each other.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. botany, zoology Twin, twinned; growing or occurring in pairs.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Bot.) Growing in pairs or twins.

Etymologies

  1. Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek δίδυμος ("twin"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Greek didumos, twin; see dwo- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. didymate
  1. heisteria
  1. twin

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  • jmjarmstrong JM is pleased to have a couple of didymous appendages. Feb 3, 2011

  • whichbe Twin; twinned; growing in pairs. (from Phrontistery) May 25, 2008

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