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Definition of Raphide
1. Noun. (biochemistry) A crystal of calcium oxalate, shaped like a needle, which forms as a metabolic byproduct in some plant cells. ¹
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Definition of Raphide
1. a needle-shaped crystal occurring in plant cells [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Raphide
Literary usage of Raphide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1921)
"In the endosperm the few raphide-bearing cells are similar to those in the corm
... Probably the most clearly defined raphide region is that in the root. ..."
2. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"The presence of the mucilage is the cause of the quick swelling of the raphide-bearing
sacs in water : their membrane bursts, and the raphides escape with ..."
3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1902)
"... roots often shows its community of origin with the cortex by the presence of
raphide cells such as are characteristic onlyof the ..."
4. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1902)
"If a section of the young germinating embryo is examined a large number of
raphide-containing cells will be seen, which were not visible in the resting ..."
5. The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Application, Being a Familiar by Jabez Hogg (1871)
"4, Cells of garden Rhubarb, filled with raphide*. 6, Cells from same, filled with
starch-grains. intercellular passages.1 Some of the containing cells ..."
6. Physiological Botany by George Lincoln Goodale (1885)
"In a solution of sugar, raphide? are produced ; in pure water, prisms of small
size, but with sharply defmed faces and angles. 189. According to Souchay and ..."
7. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1866)
"raphide* of an Arum, contained in a large cell ; and 73, the same, detached from
the surrounding tissue, and discharging Ita contenta upon the application ..."
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