didymous

[ did-uh-muhs ]

adjective

, Botany.

1. occurring in pairs; paired; twin.

didymous

/ ˈdɪdɪməs /

adjective

1. biology in pairs or in two parts

Word History and Origins

Origin of didymous¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of didymous¹

C18: from Greek didumos twin, from duo two

Example Sentences

Pod 2-seeded, didymous; the valves rugose, separating at maturity from the little partition as 2 closed 1-seeded nutlets.

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

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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.

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

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

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