a. (Bot.) Manifesting dichogamy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; in two, asunder + &unr_; marriage. ] (Bot.) The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dichotomizes. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dichotomized p. pr. & vb. n. Dichotomizing ] [ See Dichotomous. ] 1. To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The apostolical benediction dichotomizes all good things into grace and peace. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) To exhibit as a half disk. See Dichotomy, 3. “[ The moon ] was dichotomized.” Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dichotomos, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; in two, asunder + diate`mnein to cut. ] Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem. -- Di*chot"o*mous*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_;: cf. F. dichotomie. See Dichotomous. ] 1. A cutting in two; a division. [ 1913 Webster ]

A general breach or dichotomy with their church. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Astron.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Biol.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The place where a stem or vein is forked. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Logic) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]