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A cutting in two; a division.

Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.

That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.

Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.

The place where a stem or vein is forked.

Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white.

A cutting in two; a division.

Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.

That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.

Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.

The place where a stem or vein is forked.

Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white.

A division into two parts.

DICHOTOMOUS.

Branching which results from the division of a growing point with two equal parts.

The state of being dichotomous, the phenomenon of dichotomous division.

Bifurcation of the developing embryo, either at the superior or inferior growing point, producing reduplication or a double monstrosity, but always having a single median axis, at some point of its course.

n. [Greek] A cutting in two;—division or distribution of genera into two species;t—hat phase of the moon in which it shows only half its disk;—distribution or growth by pairs, as when the stem of a plant divides into two branches, each branch into other two successively.