dichotomous
adj/daɪˈkɒt.ə.məs/UK/daɪˈkɑ.tə.məs/US/daɪˈkɒt.ə.məs/CA/dɑeˈkɔt.ə.məs/
Etymology
From Late Latin dichotomos, from Ancient Greek διχότομος (dikhótomos, “cut in half”). By surface analysis, dichotomy + -ous.
- derived from διχότομος
- borrowed from dichotomos
Definitions
Dividing or branching into two mutually exclusive pieces.
- Genus Riccia L. Plants are thalloid, forming rosettes or loose, dichotomous patches.
- The second half of the book switches to the increasingly dark story of how, from the 17th century onwards, European thinkers and politicians constructed a more and more dichotomous worldview.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for dichotomous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA