distichous

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Cotyledons 2 or 3.—Strong-scented evergreen trees, with very small and scale-like or some awl-shaped closely appressed-imbricated leaves, distichous branchlets, and exceedingly durable wood.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Adj. bisected &c. v.; cloven, cleft; bipartite, biconjugate†, bicuspid, bifid; bifurcous†, bifurcate, bifurcated; distichous, dichotomous, furcular†; semi-, demi-, hemi†.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Stems are stout below with distichous leaves and very slender above, 2 to 3-1/2 feet long.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

The leaf-sheaths are distichous, compressed, glabrous or rarely hairy.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

He also questions the propriety of the separation according to the distichous arrangement of the hairs of the tail.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage