Bot. Anglicized form of SYMPODIUM. (Cf. F. sympode.)
1880. Gray, Struct. Bot., v. (ed. 6), 154. The inflorescence … is a sympode, i. e. consists of a series of seemingly superposed 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.
