Binervate

Quick meaning: Binervate is an adjective meaning (zoology, botany) Of leaves, wings, etc. having only two nerves or ribs.

Meaning

(zoology, botany) Of leaves, wings, etc. having only two nerves or ribs.

Example Sentences

...seedlings with two binervate cotyledons.

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.

(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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include uninervate, uninerved, nervate, nervose, nerveless, nervous.

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