Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In bot and zoology, alternately disposed on exactly opposite sides of the stem so as to form two rows; bifarious; distichous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Alternately disposed on exactly opposite sides of the stem so as to from two ranks; distichous.
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Examples
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Keep in mind; the Vikings have the number two-ranked defense in the league and the number three-ranked halfback in Adrian Peterson.
Thomas Alter: The Never-Ending Saga of Brett Favre Thomas Alter 2010
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Keep in mind; the Vikings have the number two-ranked defense in the league and the number three-ranked halfback in Adrian Peterson.
Thomas Alter: The Never-Ending Saga of Brett Favre Thomas Alter 2010
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Keep in mind; the Vikings have the number two-ranked defense in the league and the number three-ranked halfback in Adrian Peterson.
Thomas Alter: The Never-Ending Saga of Brett Favre Thomas Alter 2010
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That marked the beginning of an emotional run of ten wins over the next eleven games, one of the most special coming against cross-town rival and number two-ranked North Carolina.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball Jack Canfield 2009
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That marked the beginning of an emotional run of ten wins over the next eleven games, one of the most special coming against cross-town rival and number two-ranked North Carolina.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball Jack Canfield 2009
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Her eyes fell to the jury filing into their two-ranked ‘box.’
Over the River 2004
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= -- Leaves are two-ranked and alternate, and very often they become crowded at the lower portions of the shoots so as to form basal tufts, though they are farther apart in the upper portions of these shoots.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The Californian botanist Mr. Sereno Watson takes away Lawson's cypress from Cupressus and puts it in the genus Chamæcyparis, the chief points of distinction being the flattened two-ranked branchlets and the small globose cones maturing the first year.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various
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Glume the chaffy two-ranked members found in the inflorescence of grasses.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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There is the two-ranked, in which the third leaf stands over the first; the three-ranked, in which the fourth leaf stands over the first.
Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863
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