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rachis
noun as in spine
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“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.
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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.
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But this specimen lacked the rachis; it just had barbs and barbules down its ribbonlike tail.
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Their structure suggests that the two finest tiers of branching in modern feathers, known as barbs and barbules, arose before the rachis formed.
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Fruit.—Fleshy, coalescent and sunk in the rachis.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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