rachis
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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
Branching from the rachis are smaller shafts called barbs, and then branching from the barbs are even smaller filaments called barbules.
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
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 K. Rangachari
The inflorescence is a spike-like panicle, with very short filiform inarticulate branches and rachises.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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 K. Rangachari
Many species of Andropogon have such jointed rachises.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
