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‖ sympodium Bot.|sɪmˈpəʊdɪəm|
Pl. -ia.
[mod.L., f. Gr. σύν sym- + ποδ-, πούς foot.]
An apparent axis or stem in a dichotomously branched plant, made up of the bases of successive branches so arranged as to resemble a simple or monopodial axis; a pseudaxis (see pseudo- 2).
1862F. Currey tr. Hofmeister's Higher Cryptogamia 224 Those plants whose sympodium (which has the appearance of a principal axis) bears no fronds. Ibid. 225, I have met with sympodia four feet long devoid of fronds. 1875Bennett & Dyer tr. Sachs' Bot. 157 The apparent primary shoot, which in fact consists of the bases of consecutive bifurcations, may..be termed a Pseud-axis or Sympodium. |