As in Lycopodium, branching is usually dichotomous.
His foreign-policy vision was resolutely moralistic and highly ideological, dominated by a dichotomous view of England as a corrupt and degenerate engine of despotism and France as the enlightened wave of the future.
A cluster of fan-shaped deciduous leaves with open dichotomous venation occurs at the end of each lateral spur shoot.
For decades heated debates have focused on the functions and interrelations of the most basic inflectional categories, often discussed in terms of dichotomous subsystems such as "state versus action," "transitive versus intransitive," "punctual versus durative," or "perfective versus imperfective".
Branching is usually dichotomous; that is, the shoot tip forks repeatedly.
The few examples of dichotomous branching among angiosperms are found only in some cacti, palms, and bird-of-paradise plants.
In other members, sporangia were borne laterally but no true leaves were developed, and the branching was often of a primitive dichotomous type.
This unusual group of small herbaceous plants is characterized by a leafless and rootless body possessing a stem that exhibits a primitive dichotomous type of branching: it forks into equal halves.
The film established Lombard as one of the leading comic actresses of the 1930s and served as a showcase for her unique dichotomous persona of sophisticated glamour and earthy audaciousness.
Lamarck designed the Flore française specifically for the task of plant identification and used dichotomous keys, which are classification tools that allow the user to choose between opposing pairs of morphological characters (see taxonomy: The objectives of biological classification) to achieve this end.
Yet the dichotomous way of thinking continues to bedevil discussion and is the basis of the recurrent dispute known as the nature-nurture controversy (heredity versus environment), which entails debate over whether behaviour, intelligence, aptitude, character, and so forth are products of genetics or of exposure to environmental factors (e.g., culture).
