rachis
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Each leaflet may have its own stalk, but is attached to the rachis.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
“The thickness of the rachis in some specimens is 3 microns thick. That’s less than the size of the average cell,” O’Connor says.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 14, 2018
In all modern feathers, the central shaft or rachis is a hollow tube.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 14, 2018
That is interesting because the rachis seems to aid in flight.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2016
Using my HB pencil, I work to sketch out the barbs of the feather, drawing lines from the rachis outward.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Sometimes at the base of the rachises, main or secondary, glandular streaks are seen as in the rachises of Sporobolus coromandelianus.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The female inflorescence is a large globose head consisting of short spikelets articulate at the very base of the rachis, short bracts and very long, spreading, rigid rod-like rachises.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Many species of Andropogon have such jointed rachises.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The inflorescence is a spike-like panicle, with very short filiform inarticulate branches and rachises.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.