distichous
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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
The spikelets are usually 2-flowered, smooth, articulate on short peduncles, distichous, 1/3 to 1/2 inch long.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The leaf-blade is flat, linear, distichous, coriaceous, rounded at the tip, margins sparsely ciliate, 1 to 2-1/2 inches long.
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.
The cells are distichous, and of a very peculiar form, but varying in some degree according to their situation.
