a. [In sense 1, f. SYMPODIUM; in sense 2, f. SYMPODIA: See -AL.]

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  1.  Bot. Pertaining or relating to, of the nature of, or producing a sympodium.

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1875.  Bennett & Dyer, trans. Sachs’ Bot., 157. The Development of Dichotomous Systems may take place either in a forked or a sympodial manner.

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1880.  Bessey, Botany, 140. Sympodial dichotomy, in which one of the branches of each bifurcation develops more than the other.

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1888.  [see SYMPODE].

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  2.  Anat. Affected with sympodia; having the lower extremities united.

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1902.  Brit. Med. Jrnl., 15 March, 671. His identification of the Siren with the sympodial fetus.

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  Hence Sympodially adv. Bot., in the manner of, or so as to produce, a sympodium.

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1875.  Bennett & Dyer, trans. Sachs’ Bot., 157. The dichotomous system is developed sympodially when at each bifurcation one branch developes more strongly than the other.

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1884.  Bower & 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.

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