Crossword-Solution: DIMIDIATE 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The young leaves are purplish-green, and form a curious contrast to the deep lurid hue of the older foliage; especially when the tree is (which often occurs) dimidiate, one half the green, and the other the red shades of colours; when in full blossom, all forms a mass of yellow, diffusing a fragrance rather too strong and peculiar to be pleasant.

The terminal cell is always solitary, very often attached to the one next it, which is generally single, obliquely placed, occasionally looking like the dimidiate calyptra capping a young seta.

Some butterflies are dimidiate hermaphrodites; _i.e._ one side of the body has the form and color of the male, the other the form and color of the female.

Dimidiate -us: halved; extending half way around; applied to elytra when they cover only half the abdomen.

Lastly, he would cite the "Dimidiate Menander" of Cæsar, as a proof of the opinion entertained of his genius by the great writers of his own country; and when he had done this, he might enquire with confidence whether any one existed capable of forming a judgment upon style, or of distinguishing one author from another, who would dispute the position for which he contended.