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Dichotomous

adjective
1.
Divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications.





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... He knew that dichotomous classifications were of little use for animals (De Partibus, i. 3) and he explicitly and in so many words accepted the principle of all "natural" classification, that affinities must be judged by comparing not one but the sum ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell


Words linked to "Dichotomous" :   divided, dichotomy


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