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parastichy
[ pi-ras-ti-kee ]
noun
Botany.
plural parastichies.
- one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
parastichy
/ ±èəˈ°ùæ²õ³Ùɪ°ìɪ /
noun
- a hypothetical spiral line connecting the bases of a series of leaves on a stem
- an arrangement of leaves so connected
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Derived Forms
- ±è²¹Ëˆ°ù²¹²õ³Ù¾±³¦³ó´Ç³Ü²õ, adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of parastichy1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of parastichy1
C19: from para- 1+ Greek stikhia, from stikhos row, rank
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