Sympodial means "with conjoined feet", and in biology's often used to refer to the outward morphology or mode of growth of organisms. In botany Plants with sympodial growth have a specialized lateral growth pattern in which the apical meristem's terminated. The apical meristem can either be consumed to make an inflorescence or other determinate structure, or it can be aborted. Growth's continued by a lateral meristem, which repeats the process. The result's that the stem, which may appear to be… (More on Sympodial)