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sympodial, a.|sɪmˈpəʊdɪəl|
[In sense 1, f. sympodium; in sense 2, f. sympodia: see -al1.]
1. Bot. Pertaining or relating to, of the nature of, or producing a sympodium.
1875Bennett & Dyer tr. Sachs' Bot. 157 The Development of Dichotomous Systems may take place either in a forked or a sympodial manner. 1880Bessey Botany 140 Sympodial dichotomy, in which one of the branches of each bifurcation develops more than the other. 1888[see sympode].
2. Anat. Affected with sympodia; having the lower extremities united.
1902Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Mar. 671 His identification of the Siren with the sympodial fetus.
Hence symˈpodially adv. Bot., in the manner of, or so as to produce, a sympodium.
1875Bennett & Dyer tr. Sachs' Bot. 157 The dichotomous system is developed sympodially when at each bifurcation one branch developes more strongly than the other. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 279 A cauline bundle, the corners of which are composed of the sympodially united leaf-traces of a single bundle. |