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binervate en · ADJ

Etymology

From bi- + nerve (“a leaf vein”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of leaves, wings, etc. having only two nerves or ribs.
    • The binervate wings of this species are elongated and nearly transparent.
    • (Hookeria laete-virens): stem procumbent, subpinnate; leaves suddenly acuminate, ovate, or ovate-oblong, with a thickened margin, sharply toothed, binervate. 1863, Miles Joseph Berkeley, Handbook of British Mosses, London: Lovell Reeve & Co., page 68:
    • (Pilotrichella welwitschii): ...the ramuline leaves are spathulate from a contracted base, obsoletely binervate, more longly acuminate, with upper margins involute and serrulate. (Erythrodontium bicolor): Ramuline leaves, appressed when dry, erecto-patent when wet, 0.85 mm. long by 0.375 mm. wide, from a broad cordate base elliptic-ovate acuminate, slightly hollowed, shortly binervate, with margins erect or slightly recurved, minutely serrulate above middle... 1901, Antony Gepp, “Mosses”, in Catalogue of the African Plants Collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853–61, volume II, Part II: Cryptogamia, London: British Museum (Natural History), Department of Botany, pages 292, 298:
    • ...seedlings with two binervate cotyledons. 1987, Excerpta botanica, Sectio A: Taxonomica et chorologica, volume 48, number 7, Stuttgart, New York: Gustav Fischer Verlag, page 124: