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Meaning of "orthostichy" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ORTHOSTICHY

From ortho- + Greek stikhos line.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ORTHOSTICHY

orthostichy  [ɔːˈθɒstɪkɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ORTHOSTICHY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Orthostichy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ORTHOSTICHY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of orthostichy in the English dictionary

The definition of orthostichy in the dictionary is an imaginary vertical line that connects a row of leaves on a stem. Other definition of orthostichy is an arrangement of leaves so connected.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ORTHOSTICHY


dickey
ˈdɪkɪ
hickey
ˈhɪkɪ
mickey
ˈmɪkɪ
micky
ˈmɪkɪ
nonsticky
ˌnɒnˈstɪkɪ
parastichy
pəˈræstɪkɪ
picky
ˈpɪkɪ
plasticky
ˈplæˌstɪkɪ
psyche
ˈsaɪkɪ
quickie
ˈkwɪkɪ
reiki
ˈreɪkɪ
rheumaticky
ruːˈmætɪkɪ
shaky
ˈʃeɪkɪ
shticky
ˈʃtɪkɪ
staticky
ˈstætɪkɪ
sticky
ˈstɪkɪ
tickey
ˈtɪkɪ
tricky
ˈtrɪkɪ
Vicky
ˈvɪkɪ
wiki
ˈwɪkɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ORTHOSTICHY

orthorexia
orthorhombic
orthoscope
orthoscopic
orthoses
orthosilicate
orthosis
orthostatic
orthostichies
orthostichous
orthotic
orthotics
orthotist
orthotone
orthotonic
orthotopic
orthotropic
orthotropism
orthotropous
orthotropy

WORDS THAT END LIKE ORTHOSTICHY

anarchy
beachy
bitchy
catchy
Clichy
crunchy
cymotrichy
droichy
hierarchy
itchy
leiotrichy
monarchy
peachy
raunchy
sketchy
slouchy
stretchy
tichy
ulotrichy
Vichy

Synonyms and antonyms of orthostichy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «orthostichy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ORTHOSTICHY

Find out the translation of orthostichy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of orthostichy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «orthostichy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

orthostichy
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

orthostichy
570 millions of speakers

English

orthostichy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

orthostichy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

orthostichy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

orthostichy
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

orthostichy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

orthostichy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

orthostichy
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Orthostichy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

orthostichy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

orthostichy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

orthostichy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Orthostichy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

orthostichy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

orthostichy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऑर्थोस्टिची
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

orthostichy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

orthostichy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

orthostichy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

orthostichy
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

orthostichy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

orthostichy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

orthostichy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

orthostichy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

orthostichy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of orthostichy

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ORTHOSTICHY»

The term «orthostichy» is barely ever used and occupies the 207.524 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ORTHOSTICHY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «orthostichy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «orthostichy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about orthostichy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORTHOSTICHY»

Discover the use of orthostichy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to orthostichy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Contemporary problems in plant anatomy
leaf gap for the next leaf in the orthostichy opens by the splitting of the same meristele. Continued splitting and rejoining of a particular meristele to open and close leaf gaps and the association of a leaf with each of these gaps throughout the ...
Richard White, 1984
2
Genetics: Classical to Modern
2. Tristichous or three ranked or 1/3 phyllotaxy. There are three leaves in one spiral forming three vertical rows while completing one circle. Thus first, fourth, seventh and tenth leaf occur in one row or orthostichy and third, sixth, ninth and twelth ...
P. K. Gupta, 2007
3
Patterns in Plant Development
In plants with helical phyllotaxy it is also possible to recognize approximately vertical ranks of leaves, each of which is called an orthostichy. Customarily the phyl- lotatic pattern is described in the form of a fraction, the denominator of which is ...
Taylor A. Steeves, Ian M. Sussex, 1989
4
Phloem: the integrative avenue for resource distribution, ...
Finally, as source leaves preferentially serve sinks with a direct vascular connection (referred to as orthostichy), the viral movement is also predicted accordingly to orthostichy (Roberts et al., 2007). Following symptom appearance and viral ...
Aart J. E. van Bel, John W. Patrick, Gary A. Thompson, 2014
5
Wind Energy Resource Survey in India III
The phyllotactic pattern is expressed in fraction, the denominator is the number of orthostichies in the system and the numerator is the number of gyres of the helix between two successive leaves in the same orthostichy. If in an orthostichy the ...
Satish Sonkar
6
American journal of botany
Both these fruit weights were compared with the weights of fruits in three adjacent orthostichies (chosen randomly) in both the between orthostichy removal and control groups. The mean weights of the second group of 30 fruits were compared ...
‎1989
7
Illinois Biological Monographs
The range of orthostichies represented is from —2 to 3, and there is no O- orthostichy. Again there are more series of roots on the -|-y side of the graph than on the — y side. Series 1 is limited to one primordium. In this plant, however, series ...
‎1962
8
Illinois biological monographs
The range of orthostichies represented is from —2 to 3, and there is no O- orthostichy. Again there are more series of roots on the +y side of the graph than on the — y side. Series 1 is limited to one primordium. In this plant, however, series — 2 ...
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus), 1964
9
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Biotechnology
Orthostichous : Exhibiting orthostichy; arranged in vertical ranks. Orthostichy : A vertical rank; an arrangement of leaves or scales at different heights on an axis so that their median planes coincide, as the vertical ranks of leaves on a stem.
Varun Shastri, 2005
10
Phyllotaxis: A Systemic Study in Plant Morphogenesis
Orthostichy: In multijugate as well as in multimerous systems an orthostichy is a particular parastichy, a straight line obtained by joining two leaves or primordia that are approximately superposed with respect to the apical tip or with respect to  ...
Roger V. Jean, 2009

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Orthostichy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/orthostichy>. Apr 2024 ».
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