Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, being double or in couples; having only two leaflets to a petiole; growing in pairs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Double; growing in pairs or couples.
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- adjective botany
double ;growing inpairs orcouples
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective growing in two parts or in pairs
Etymologies
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Examples
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If the request comes early in the morning to celebrate an early N.O.M., the priest could always say that he has scheduled a later T.L.M. and chooses not to binate.
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Priests can be allowed but never required to binate or trinate.
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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.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964
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The _spikelets_ are binate, one sessile and another pedicelled, both bisexual and alike, lanceolate, 1/8 to 1/6 inch long, callus is minute and bearded with spreading silky hairs 1/2 inch long.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Spikelets are binate, one sessile and one pedicelled; the pedicelled spikelets are dissimilar from the sessile and both usually 2-flowered.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _spikelets_ are binate, one sessile and the other pedicelled.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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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.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Spikelets are small, 1-flowered, binate, one sessile and the other pedicelled, the sessile spikelet is bisexual and the pedicelled is female and rarely bisexual; sessile spikelets are deciduous with the contiguous joint of the rachis and the pedicel.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The spikelets are binate one sessile and the other shortly pedicelled, with the callus villous.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Stems are erect or decumbent below or ascending from a creeping base, rooting at the nodes, smooth, glabrous and much branched, varying in height, from 1 to 2 feet; branches are short, slender and sometimes even capillary, with _nodes_ bearded or not in branches ending in solitary spikes, and completely glabrous when they end in binate spikes.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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