| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| dichasium |
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| SYLLABICATION: | di·cha·si·um |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d -k  z - m, -zh-m, -zhm |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. di·cha·si·a (-z-, -zh-, -zh)
A cyme having two lateral flowers or branches originating from opposite points beneath a terminal flower. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin, from Greek dikhasis, division, from dikhazein, to divide in two, from dikha, in two. See dwo- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | di·chasi·al (-z-l, -zh-l, -zhl) —ADJECTIVE
di·chasi·al·ly —ADVERB
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