Definition of Diarch

1. having two xylem strands [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diarch

diaplacental
diaplasis
diaplastic
diaplexus
diapnoic
diapolycopene
diapophyses
diapophysical
diapophysis
diapositive
diapositives
diapsid
diapsid reptile
diapsids
diapycnal
diarch (current term)
diarchal
diarchic
diarchies
diarchy
diareses
diaresis
diarginate
diarial
diarian
diaries
diarise
diarised
diarises
diarising

Literary usage of Diarch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"... bundles usually occur, diarch bundles being rare, while, on the other hand, the latter are characteristic of the roots of ..."

2. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"In Ophioglossum, also, there is some variety, for in O. pendulum diarch, triarch, and tetrarch roots have been described, while in this species also a ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1907)
"... either diarch or tetrarch, and the plane passing through the centres of the ... diarch root, or through two out of the four poles of the tetrarch root. ..."

4. The Study of the Biology of Ferns by the Collodion Method: For Advanced and by George Francis Atkinson (1894)
"In Adiantum pedatum, which is usually diametrically diarch, I observed one root, the consolidated xylem plates of which formed a crescent, the points of ..."

5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1905)
"... sometimes with broad poles of a multipolar diarch (Fig. 17, d) and at other times almost as pointed as in a typical bipolar spindle (Fig. 17, e). ..."

6. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"... they were mainly confined to the diarch roots, and that this is connected with a weakening of the growth of the root through the growth of the fungus, ..."

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