Definition of Sympodium

1. n. An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine.

Definition of Sympodium

1. Noun. A pattern of branching, similar to dichotomous branching. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sympodium

1. a plant stem made up of a series of superposed branches [n -DIA]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sympodium

symplasts
symplectic
symplectically
symplectomorphic
symplectomorphism
symplectomorphisms
symplesiomorphies
symplesiomorphy
symplesite
symploce
symploces
sympode
sympodes
sympodia
sympodial
sympodium (current term)
symport
symporter
symporters
symports
symposia
symposiac
symposiacs
symposiarch
symposiarchs
symposiast
symposiasts
symposium
symposiums
symproportionation

Literary usage of Sympodium

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

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"[< sympodium, qv] Same as sympodium. According to this, the shoot of the vine Is a ... In bot., having' the character of or resulting in a sympodium: as, ..."

2. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"The numbers,, denote the years in which the respective pieces of the sympodium have been produced. close of each period of growth, after the bud for the ..."

3. Biologisches Zentralblatt by Isidor Rosenthal (1892)
"Ich bestätige beide Befunde; namentlich letzteren Fall, in welchem also das sympodium (der Hauptstamm) direkt ein entgegengesetzt orientiertes sympodium aus ..."

4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"Coral like sympodium. " Spicules, which resemble small nummulites, are so minute as to be only seen by the aid of the microscope; the edges are deeply cut ..."

5. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"Cells migrating from without give rise, in sympodium, to small calcareous ... to the variations in the mode of development which are exhibited by sympodium. ..."

6. The Principles of Pharmacognosy: An Introduction to the Study of the Crude by Friedrich August Flückiger, Alexander Tschirch (1887)
"(b) sympodium * (in a more restricted sense). ... Such a sympodium can consist either of the forked branches which are always of one side ..."

7. The Principles of Pharmacognosy by Friedrich August Flückiger (1887)
"(b) sympodium ' (in a more restricted sense). ... Such a sympodium can consist either of the forked branches which are always of one side ..."

8. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"[< sympodium, qv] Same as sympodium. According to this, the shoot of the vine Is a ... In bot., having' the character of or resulting in a sympodium: as, ..."

9. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"The numbers,, denote the years in which the respective pieces of the sympodium have been produced. close of each period of growth, after the bud for the ..."

10. Biologisches Zentralblatt by Isidor Rosenthal (1892)
"Ich bestätige beide Befunde; namentlich letzteren Fall, in welchem also das sympodium (der Hauptstamm) direkt ein entgegengesetzt orientiertes sympodium aus ..."

11. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"Coral like sympodium. " Spicules, which resemble small nummulites, are so minute as to be only seen by the aid of the microscope; the edges are deeply cut ..."

12. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"Cells migrating from without give rise, in sympodium, to small calcareous ... to the variations in the mode of development which are exhibited by sympodium. ..."

13. The Principles of Pharmacognosy: An Introduction to the Study of the Crude by Friedrich August Flückiger, Alexander Tschirch (1887)
"(b) sympodium * (in a more restricted sense). ... Such a sympodium can consist either of the forked branches which are always of one side ..."

14. The Principles of Pharmacognosy by Friedrich August Flückiger (1887)
"(b) sympodium ' (in a more restricted sense). ... Such a sympodium can consist either of the forked branches which are always of one side ..."

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