Definition of Bijugous

1. a. Bijugate.

Definition of Bijugous

1. Adjective. (botany archaic) bijugate ¹

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Definition of Bijugous

1. bijugate [adj] - See also: bijugate

Medical Definition of Bijugous

1. Bijugate. Origin: L. Bijugus yoked two together; bis twice + jugum yoke, pair. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bijugous

bijections
bijective
bijective numeration
bijectively
bijectivity
bijou
bijou problemette
bijous
bijouterie
bijouteries
bijoutries
bijoutry
bijoux
bijugate
bijugate leaf
bijugous (current term)
bijugous leaf
bijwoner
bijwoners
bikable
bikathon
bikathons
bike
bike-and-ride
bike-lash
bike-lashes
bike-shedding
bike jockey strap
bike jockey straps
bike rack

Literary usage of Bijugous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of the Art of Printing by William Savage (1841)
"bijugous, in two pairs, placed end to end. Binate, growing in pairs. Bipartite, divided into two deep lobes. Bipinnate, twice pinnate. ..."

2. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"Fig. 81. Irregular flowers, 441. Jointed, having joints, separable pieces. Jugum, a pair; as, bijugous, with two pairs of leaflets ..."

3. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1869)
"Dr. Williams has sent me either a very closely allied species, or a variety of the present, with the leaflets thicker in texture, and pinnately bijugous; ..."

4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1838)
"Leaves very numerous, small, pinnate, bijugous, those towards the flowers ternate, or at the base of the peduncle simple; leaflets ovato-acute, ..."

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