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A longitudinal rank, or row, of leaves along a stem.

A secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spirals in a pine cone.

A composition consisting of five verses.

Having, or arranged in, five vertical ranks, as the leaves of an apple tree or a cherry tree.

An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid.

A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic.

A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses or lines. Pope.

Arranged in three vertical rows.

fore Christmas. -- Christmas fern (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern (Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for decoration in winter. -- Christmas flower, Christmas rose, the black hellebore, a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers mid…

Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

is followed by a shorter one; as, the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac distich.

A California scorpænoid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors.

One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.

A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus), living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus Platyglossus.

Any fish of the genus Distichodus. Several large species inhabit the Nile.

x. (a) (Bot.) A tall, liliaceous herb (Phormium tenax), having very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the like. (b) The fiber itself. -- New Zealand tea (Bot.), a myrtaceous shrub (Leptospermum scoparium) of New Zealand and Australia, the leaves of w…

Arranged in five vertical rows; pentastichous. Gray.

A California rockfish (Sebastichthys miniatus).

Any one of several California scorpænoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (S. ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa.

Stitched according to a formal pattern. "An old set-stiched chair, valanced, and fringed with party-colored worsted bobs." Sterne.