sympoden.
/ˈsɪmpəʊd/ Botany.
= sympodium n.
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1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. v. 154 The inflorescence..is a sympode, i.e. consists of a series of seemingly super~posed internodes which belong to successive generations of axes.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 237/2 The most generally accepted explanation is the ‘sympodial’ one. According to this, the shoot of the vine is a ‘sympode’, consisting of a number of ‘podia’ placed one over the other in longitudinal series.
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