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-stichous

American  
Botany, Zoology.

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

    distichous.

-stichous British  

combining form

  1. 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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