rachis
Example Sentences
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Each leaflet may have its own stalk, but is attached to the rachis.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
In all modern feathers, the central shaft or rachis is a hollow tube.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 14, 2018
That combination of features—weak rachis and evenly-spaced barbules—has not previously been directly observable in the flattened 2-dimensional fossils, Holtz says.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 8, 2016
But this specimen lacked the rachis; it just had barbs and barbules down its ribbonlike tail.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2016
It had a magenta rachis down the center with soft green vanes that shimmered yellow and purple and blue depending on how you turned it.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
