Sympodium

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sympodium \Sym*po"di*um\, n.; pl. {Sympodia}. [NL., fr. Gr. sy`n
     with + ?, dim. of ?, ?, foot.] (Bot.)
     An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which
     one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of
     the other, as in the grapevine.
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