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orthostichous

orthostichous adjective: having orthostichies.

Adjective

orthostichous (not comparable)

  1. Having orthostichies.
    • Accumulation of the dye followed orthostichous patterns wherein the dye tended to accumulate in half of each leaf not vertically aligned with the inoculation leaf (leaves 1, 2, and 4), and in the whole of each leaf vertically aligned with the inoculation leaf (leaves 3 and 5).2015 November 11, “Horizontal Transmission of”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
  2. Arranged in straight lines or ranks.

orthostichous meaning in Tamil

orthostichous in Tamil

நேர்வரிசையான

Origin of orthostichous

From orthostichy + -ous.

Questions about orthostichous

What does orthostichous mean?
Orthostichous means having orthostichies.
What is orthostichous in Tamil?
Orthostichous in Tamil is நேர்வரிசையான. See Orthostichous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is orthostichous?
Orthostichous is an adjective.

Words near orthostichous in the dictionary

  1. orthostereoscopy
  2. orthosteric
  3. orthosterically
  4. orthosterism
  5. orthostichies
  6. orthostichous
  7. orthostichy
  8. orthostrophic
  9. orthostrophy
  10. orthostyle
  11. orthostyles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orthostichous (page history and authors); orthostichous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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