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dimerous
[ dim-er-uhs ]
adjective
- consisting of or divided into two parts.
- Botany. (of flowers) having two members in each whorl.
dimerous
/ ˈɪəə /
adjective
- consisting of or divided into two segments, as the tarsi of some insects
- (of flowers) having their floral parts arranged in whorls of two
dimerous
/ ĭ′ə-ə /
- Consisting of two parts or segments, as the tarsus in certain insects.
- Having flower parts, such as petals, sepals, and stamens, in sets of two.
Derived Forms
- ˈ徱, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- 徱İ· noun
- ܲ·徱İ·dzܲ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of dimerous1
Example Sentences
Leaves oblong or oval with narrowed base; flowers mostly dimerous; seeds short-oblong, with 6 or 7 longitudinal lines and 10–12 crossbars.—Ill. and southwestward.
A flower in which the parts are arranged in twos is called dimerous; when the parts of the whorls are three, four or five, the flower is trimerous, tetramerous or pentamerous, respectively.
Dimerous and tetramerous symmetry occur also among dicotyledons.
The symmetry in the flower is evidently dimerous, and the abnormality in the androecium, where the four long stamens are opposite the posterior sepals, takes place by a splitting, at a very early stage of development, of a single outgrowth into two.
Dimerous, made up of two parts, or its organs in twos.
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