orthostichous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Arranged in straight lines or ranks.
Example Sentences
- "Accumulation of the dye followed orthostichous patterns wherein the dye tended to accumulate in half of each leaf not vertically aligned with the inoculation leaf (leaves 1, 2, and 4), and in the whole of each leaf vertically aligned with the inoculation leaf (leaves 3 and 5)."
Etymology
From orthostichy + -ous.