Etymograph

English

false dichotomy

From false + dichotomy.

A compound of false + dichotomy

Latin fallō ‘to deceive’

Latin falsus ‘counterfeit, false’

Old English fals ‘false; fraud’

Middle English false

English false

Ancient Greek διχότομος ‘cut in two’

Ancient Greek διχοτομία

English dichotomy

Today it means

noun A branching in which the main axis appears to divide dichotomously at the apex but is in reality suppressed, the growth being continued by lateral branches (as in the dichasium).

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