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adv. - In a manner that divides into two parts or groups.

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  • Most people, I believe, live dichotomously--their minds separated from their bodies--and they do not fully understand the actions of their bodies.
  • An erect, herbaceous, dichotomously branched perennial, 60-180 cm high, with large, fleshy, cylindrical, obovoid subterranean rhizomes, large lanceolate leaves and white...
  • These may all continue to increase by splitting in two, and then the family tree is composed of dichotomously branching lines; or they may resolve themselves into...
  • -- It will be noted that the bronchi divide monopodially, not dichotomously.
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