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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

parastichy

/pi-ras-ti-kee/US // pɪˈræs tɪ ki //UK // (pəˈræstɪkɪ) //

旁门左道,旁观者,旁观者清,旁证

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pa·ras·ti·chies.Botany.

    • : one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
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