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Definition of Rachides
1. rachis [n] - See also: rachis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rachides
Literary usage of Rachides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fossil Botany: Being an Introduction to Palaeophytology from the Standpoint by Hermann Solms-Laubach, Henry Edward Fowler Garnsey (1891)
"12), which grow in numbers either from the surface of the main rachis or at the
base of the rachides of the second order, ..."
2. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1870)
"The stipes, which is reddish-brown towards the base, together with the rachides
and both surfaces of the frond, is quite glabrous, rounded behind, ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"rachides with pale rusty wool when young: Ivs. firm, ... rachides spiny: Ivs.
green beneath. medullaris, Swartz. ..."
4. The Phytologist: A Botanical Journal edited by Alexander Irvine (1861)
"... divided nearly to the costa into linear-oblong serrated lobes, the undivided
portion about equal in width to the wing of the rachides, so that the ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... scaly stems which are brownish, like the rachides ; pinnae numerous, ...
the segments and the rachides ; segments nearly round, the terminal larger. ..."
6. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1875)
"The chief of these was the presence of pits at either end of the joints of the
principal rachides, and of more than two, but smaller, in certain other of ..."
7. The Floral World and Garden Guide by Shirley Hibberd (1862)
"The fronds, which grow in thick tufts, are about a foot long, and have the slender
ebony coloured stipites and rachides usual in the genus ; they are ..."
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