Feathers are mostly distichous, hair-partings are distichous, the moustache is distichous. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Spikelets are very minute, one-flowered, half immersed in the alternating distichous cavities of the rachis of the spike; rachilla is bearded. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
He also questions the propriety of the separation according to the distichous arrangement of the hairs of the tail. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
In some the general hue is orange brown with obscure annuli; the arrangement of the hair is distichous or in two rows. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
Opposite - leaf attachments paired at each node; decussate if, as typical, each successive pair is rotated 90° going along the stem; or distichous if not rotated, but two-ranked (in the same plane). From Wordnik.com. [Wikibooks - Recent changes [en]] Reference
After a careful examination of the organ in nearly all the members of the series, he writes: "I have failed to detect that it is essentially distinctive of them -- that is, that the distichous arrangement of the hairs is always associated with a diminutive species; but at the same time there can be no doubt that it is more prevalent among such.". From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
A common short branchlet, loosely imbricate, distichous and shortly stipitate and the stipe with a purple thickening; pedicel is short, 1/24 to 1/12 inch with sometimes long deciduous hairs and the tip somewhat thickened. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
On the parachute only a few hairs have the reddish band, and these are most numerous towards the margin; the tail is rather bushy and but slightly distichous, and the hidden portion of its fur is pale fawn at the base, passing into pale chestnut brown, washed with dusky brown on the sides and upper surface; the margins of the eyelids are dark brown, and the sides of the face are pale rufous; the ears are moderately large and rounded, rather dark brown towards the tips, and pencilled at the base, anteriorly and posteriorly, with long delicate hairs. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
Leaves are somewhat distichous. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
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