distichous
adjective
arranged alternately in two vertical rows on opposite sides of an axis, as leaves.
distichously
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a word derived from
distichous.
Example Sentences
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Aërides.—A large genus of evergreen Orchids with distichously arranged, leathery, green leaves, the stem producing air-roots freely.
From Orchids by James O'Brien
The leaf-sheath is glabrous, faintly and finely striate, distichously imbricate, compressed, somewhat keeled, outer margin ciliate, and bearded at the mouth.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Spikelets distichously spreading, secund, keels of palea winged 8.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Spikelets are 2- to 3-flowered, distichously racemed, narrowly turbinate, villous.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
