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adj. - Plant or animal parts that are divided into two specific segments.

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  • Feathers are mostly distichous, hair-partings are distichous, the moustache is distichous.
  • Spikelets are very minute, one-flowered, half immersed in the alternating distichous cavities of the rachis of the spike; rachilla is bearded.
  • 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.
  • He also questions the propriety of the separation according to the distichous arrangement of the hairs of the tail.
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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