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Definition of Rhachises
1. rhachis [n] - See also: rhachis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhachises
Literary usage of Rhachises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... toothed or slightly incised ; fertile fronds long-stalked, the rhachises
scarcely winged, ultimate segments oblong or linear-oblong, 3 to 5 lines long, ..."
2. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1878)
"Heads of spikelets several inches diameter. • Male »pikelets in spikes of 1 to
1J in. Females at the base of rigid rhachises of 3 to 4 in. ..."
3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"(PUMPKIN A.) Terete branchlets velvety-pubescent, as are the petioles, rhachises,
etc. ; leaflets 7-9, ovate-lanceolate, ..."
4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"POLYSTICHUM Roth Fronds tufted at the end of a stout rootstock, chiefly of firm
or leathery texture, evergreen ; stipes and rhachises chaffy. ..."
5. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray (1897)
"... carinate, not strongly reticulated : inflorescences rather short ; rhachises
4-8-jointed : onter sepals ovate-oblong, relatively short and broad, ..."
6. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"... bears a single leaflet, while the others are extended into secondary rhachises
furnished with numerous leaflets, mostly in the abruptly pinnate style. ..."
7. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"... bears a single leaflet, while the others are extended into secondary rhachises
furnished with numerous leaflets, mostly in the abruptly pinnate style. ..."
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