rachis

Example Sentences

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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.

From Science Magazine

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 Literature

But this specimen lacked the rachis; it just had barbs and barbules down its ribbonlike tail.

From New York Times

Their structure suggests that the two finest tiers of branching in modern feathers, known as barbs and barbules, arose before the rachis formed.

From BBC

Fruit.—Fleshy, coalescent and sunk in the rachis.

From Project Gutenberg