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Dich [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To ditch.

Dichastic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of subdividing spontaneously.

Dichlamydeous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having two coverings, a calyx and in corolla.

Dichloride [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Bichloride.

Dichogamous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Manifesting dichogamy.

Dichogamy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Dichotomist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who dichotomizes.

Dichotomize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To cut into two parts; to divide into pairs.

Dichotomize [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.

Dichotomize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.

2. To exhibit as a half disk. See Dichotomy, 3.

Dichotomized [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Dichotomize

Dichotomizing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Dichotomize

Dichotomous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In botany, regularly dividing by pairs from top to bottom; as a dichotomous stem.

Dichotomous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem.

Dichotomy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Division or distribution of ideas by pairs. [Little used.]

2. In astronomy, that phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.

Dichotomy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A cutting in two; a division.

2. Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.

3. That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.

4. 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.

5. The place where a stem or vein is forked.

6. 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.

Dichroic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.

Dichroiscope [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Dichroscope.

Dichroism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Dichroite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.

Dichroitic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dichroic.

Dichromate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.

Dichromatic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having or exhibiting two colors.

2. Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects.

Dichromatism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being dichromatic.