distichous

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Leaf-sheaths are compressed and distichous below, glabrous or sometimes with a few hairs close to the margin.

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

The leaf-blade is soft, narrowly linear, finely acute, acuminate or pungent, somewhat glaucous, conspicuously distichous at the base of the stem and, in non-flowering branches, scabrid along the margins.

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

Feathers are mostly distichous, hair-partings are distichous, the moustache is distichous.

From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by English, Douglas

In some the general hue is orange brown with obscure annuli; the arrangement of the hair is distichous or in two rows.

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

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