distichous
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The leaf-sheaths are distichous, compressed, glabrous or rarely hairy.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
The spikelets are very small, one-flowered, half immersed in the alternating distichous cavities of the rachis.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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 Peter Mark Roget
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 Robert Armitage Sterndale
Male spikelets are 1- to 2-flowered, subsessile, distichous, jointed on rigid peduncled spikes, which are collected in umbels and surrounded by spathaceous leafy bracts.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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