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didymous
[did-uh-muhs]
adjective
occurring in pairs; paired; twin.
didymous
/ ˈɪɪə /
adjective
biology in pairs or in two parts
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of didymous1
Example Sentences
Pod 2-seeded, didymous; the valves rugose, separating at maturity from the little partition as 2 closed 1-seeded nutlets.
Fruit didymous, the 2 carpels each splitting into two 1-seeded nutlets; style elongated; flowers scattered, large.
Filament slender; anther 2-celled, didymous; the cells dehiscent transversely; pollen-grains large, spherical, muricate.
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.
Seeds two, roundish, joined into a didymous shape, downy.
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