||Sym*po"di*um (?), n.; pl. Sympodia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. sy`n with + &?;, dim. of &?;, &?;, foot.] (Bot.) An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine.

||Sym*po"di*um (?), n.; pl. Sympodia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. sy`n with + &?;, dim. of &?;, &?;, foot.] (Bot.) An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine.