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Webster 1913 Edition

Sympodium

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Sym-po′di-um

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Noun.

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pl.

Sympodia

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[NL., fr. Gr.

σύν

with + [GREEK], dim. of [GREEK], [GREEK], foot.]

(Bot.)

An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine.