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DISTICHOUS [dis-ti-kuss] (adjective)Divided into two parts or two rows

"His tail? Distichous, say the books. Feathers are mostly distichous, hair-partings are distichous, the moustache is distichous. So is the dormouse tail; but the hairs along it do more than merely part. They curl, upwards from the root, downwards to the point, and form a plume."
--Douglas English, Wee Tim’rous Beasties (1903) (TWITO, page 42)