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Definition of Dimerous
1. a. Composed of, or having, two parts of each kind.
Definition of Dimerous
1. Adjective. (botany) in two parts: in a flower each whorl (of flower parts) has two flower parts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dimerous
1. composed of two parts [adj]
Medical Definition of Dimerous
1. Consisting of two parts. Origin: G. Di-, two, + meros, part (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dimerous
Literary usage of Dimerous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"It is often assumed, but without confirmatory evidence, that in such cases the
four petals are derived by duplication from a dimerous corolla. ..."
2. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"As regards tbe perianth, it is dimerous in Oxyria, it is 5-leaved in must species
of Polygonum, in Coccoloba, Muehlenbeckia, etc., and is apparently ..."
3. Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1869)
"Here, therefore, is a symmetrical and complete, regular, but dimerous ...
Regular dimerous flower of Calanthe vestita. FIG. 199. ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"His diagram, which has in recent years met with pretty wide acceptance, is as
follows : the calyx consists of two dimerous alternating whorls ; the corolla ..."
5. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"... the base and external to each stamen, constituting an external dimerous cycle,
and two at the base and between each member of each pair of long stamens, ..."
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