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Definition of Didymous
1. a. Growing in pairs or twins.
Definition of Didymous
1. Adjective. (botany zoology) Twin, twinned; growing or occurring in pairs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Didymous
1. occurring in pairs [adj]
Medical Definition of Didymous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Didymous
Literary usage of Didymous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Drupes in. long, numerous, on slender pedicels, compressed, with two lateral
furrows, almost didymous. South India, common along the western Ghats, ..."
2. Botany of the Northern and Middle States: Or, A Description of the Plants by Lewis Caleb Beck (1833)
"... limb 4-parted, spreading, villous on the inner side. Stam, scarcely exserted.
Stig. 4-cleft. Her. by the union of 2 germs didymous, 4-seeded. ..."
3. Memoirs and Proceedings (1865)
"Any of them may also form part of a didymous system of 3. This requires to l)e
shown thus ... The didymous radicals have here all four elements undisturbed. ..."
4. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1884)
"Fruit didymous, of 2 plano-convex or globose ... Fruit small, black, globose and
1-celled, or didymous.— DISTEIS. ... Fruit didymous, dry, often hispid or ..."
5. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1866)
"Fruit nearly 1 line broad, but not nearly so long, didymous, the intermediate
... Fruits about 1 line broad, didymous, the intermediate ribs semicircular, ..."
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