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a. [ Gr. &unr_; to part asunder, fr. &unr_; in two, asunder, fr. di`s- twice. ] (Biol.) Capable of subdividing spontaneously. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. di- = di`s- twice + chlamy`s, chlamy`dos, a cloak. ] (Bot.) Having two coverings, a calyx and a corolla. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. di- + chloride. ] (Chem.) Same as Bichloride. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

a. [ See Dichroism. ] Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Dichroscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; two-colored; di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; color. ] (Opt.) The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Dichroism. ] (Min.) Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dichroic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. di- + chromatic: cf. Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. Having or exhibiting two colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being dichromatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; two-colored; di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; color. ] Furnishing or giving two colors; -- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three. Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dichroic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; color + &unr_; to view. ] An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the dichroscope, or to observations with it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ornitho- + -oid + Gr. 'i`chnos footstep, track. ] (Paleon.) A fossil track resembling that of a bird. Hitchcock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Sauroid, and Ichnite. ] (Paleon.) The fossil track of a saurian. [ 1913 Webster ]