Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhachides
Literary usage of Rhachides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1864)
"Wings long, powerful, their rhachides rigid, their apices somewhat acute. ...
rhachides of primaries and rectrices whitish, except at their tips ; the inner ..."
2. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: A Description of Their Phanerogams and by William Hillebrand (1888)
"... the rhachides sparingly fibrillose or naked. Stipitate pinnae 10—16 on a side,
the lowest deltoid-or ovate-oblong, 6 —18'long, shortly stalked on ..."
3. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1897)
"... which act as sails, thus behaving like the prolongation of the rhachides in
Spinifex.1 The breaking off of the panicle is expedited by the slenderness ..."
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