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Definition of Rhaphide
1. a needle-like crystal [n RHAPHIDES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhaphide
Literary usage of Rhaphide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"rhaphide*. Needle-shaped crystals often occurring In bundles within the cells of
certain plants. ..."
2. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"469. A few cells of Locust-bark, a crystal in each, 470. A detached cell, with
rhaphide« being forced ont, as happens when put in water ..."
3. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray (1868)
"... or none but filled with the large fleshy embryo in Nos. 2, 4, and 5. A large
family, chiefly tropical. Herbage abounding in slender rhaphide.«. ..."
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