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Definition of Distichous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Distichous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Distichous
Literary usage of Distichous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"Branches flat, distichous; leaves ovate, obtuse, with a gland on the back, ...
Trees or shrubs, with scattered branches, linear rigid distichous leaves, ..."
2. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... referred to. ind a variety with white (lowers also It has distichous ...
The Olivias consist of herbs with fasciculate fleshy roots, and distichous ..."
3. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1904)
"[For (ii) (i) Leaves distichous on the lateral long shoots, seep. 286.] , , , ....
broad oval: venation strict-pinnate. Fagus sylvatica, L. Beech (Fig. ..."
4. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of ...by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1882)
"Stems crowded, with distichous leaves. Sheaths narrow, obliquely cut, with many
small transverse folds, then brown, geminate, ribbed ; ribs very rugose. ..."
5. Veitch's Manual of the Coniferae: Containing a General Review of the Order by Adolphus Henry Kent, James Veitch & Sons (1900)
"Bark of trunk greyish brown, rugose but rarely fissured. Branche;! spreading or
slightly ascending with distichous ramification. ..."
6. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"... exstipulate, sessile in the seedling, but ultimately shortly stalked, distichous,
serrated, glabrous, light green, ..."
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