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Definition of Rachises
1. rachis [n] - See also: rachis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rachises
Literary usage of Rachises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Smaller than the last: rachises with pale brown scales; 4-5 in. long. Queensland.
pinnae spear-shaped, with linear pinnules ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Smaller than the last: rachises with pale brown scales ... from smooth rachises;
pinnules close, 5-6 in. long, with 20-30 pairs of segments, ..."
3. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Stipes forked into two rachises, which bear on upper side pinnae ... Rhizome creeping,
chaffy with light brown scales; stipes and rachises purplish brown to ..."
4. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1902)
"Miss Slosson writes me that she has found that it drops its pinnae in winter, "
the stipes and rachises remaining." Needs further investigation and the ..."
5. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"1079; spines short hooked in pairs, pinnae 40-80, leaflets 60-100 small ligulate,
rachises downy, corolla 2-3 times the tomentose calyx, pod strap-shaped ..."
6. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1862)
"ß, nudicaule? ; stipes and rachises Hab. Sandwich Islands, Brackenridge.
Naviti Levu, Fiji Islands.—ß, nudicaule ?. Oahu, Beechey, Diel, Douglas. ..."
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