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dichasia

Variant of dichasium

noun pl. dichasia

Bot. a cyme in which two opposite branches arise below each terminal flower

also dichasial cyme

Origin: ModL < Gr dichasis, a division < dichazein, to divide into two < dicha: see dicho-

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