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To ditch. [Obs.]

Capable of subdividing spontaneously.

Having two coverings, a calyx and in corolla.

Same as Bichloride.

Manifesting dichogamy.

The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.

One who dichotomizes. Bacon.

art into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect. [R.] The apostolical benediction dichotomizes all good things into grace and peace. Bp. Hall.

Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem. -- Di*chot"o*mous*ly, adv.

A cutting in two; a division. A general breach or dichotomy with their church. Sir T. Browne.

Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.

Same as Dichroscope.

The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.

Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.

Dichroic.

A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.

Having or exhibiting two colors.

The state of being dichromatic.

Furnishing or giving two colors; -- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three. Sir J. Herschel.

Dichroic.