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-stichous

American

Botany, Zoology.

a combining form meaning “having rows” of the kind or number specified by the initial element.

distichous.

-stichous British

combining form

having a certain number of rows

distichous

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Etymology

Origin of -stichous

< Late Latin -stichus < Greek -stichos, adj. derivative of stíchos stich ¹

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