Examples of 'rachis' in a sentence

Meaning of "rachis"

rachis (verb) - a term that is not commonly used as a verb in English. It may be a misspelling or a reference specific to a certain field or context
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  • The spinal column, or the vertebrae of the spine.
  • An anatomical shaft or axis in a marine invertebrate.
  • The central shaft of a feather.
  • The main shaft of either a compound leaf, head of grain, or fern frond.

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The rachis of the leaves is often red.
Pinnules are borne alternately on the pinna rachis.
The rachis is triangular and glabrous.
The petiole and rachis are reddish.
The rachis is dark and warty.
The flowers are solitary along the rachis.
Rachis is smooth and light green.
Device for supporting the rachis.
The dark rachis of a turkey feather.
Undifferentiated vane with central rachis.
Pedicel and rachis are pubescent to villous or glabrescent.
They are arranged in two or three planes along the rachis.
Rachis and berry infection are both economically important.
They bore in the floral rachis of their host plant.
The rachis is filled with cytoplasm.

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There is a joint where the leaflet is attached to the rachis.
The rachis of the leaf is extended into a sharp thorn.
The leaf consists of a single leaflet on the end of a rachis.
The rachis is also white.
A joint occurs where the leaflet is attached to the rachis.
The rachis of a living being is sinusoidal.
See entry for rachis.
The rachis is finely pubescent and is a consistent deep red in colour.
A simple inflorescence of stalked flowers on a more or less elongated rachis.
Their shorter rachis segments lead to spikelets packed closer together.
Bristle feathers have a very stiff rachis but few barbs.
Pennaceous feathers have a rachis with vanes or vaxillum spreading to either side.
The middle leaflet of its leaves also has a short rachis.
The rachis is hairy and the leaf is divided into a few elongated leaflets.
Each grape berry contains a pedicel which attaches to the rachis.
The stipe and rachis of the frond are dark all along their length.
The terminal leaflet is generally much broader than the subfiliform rachis.
Rachis infections can result in fruit falling from the cluster before harvest.
The continuation of the structure within the lamina is then termed a rachis.
The rachis is the central axis of a feather which supports the barbs on either side.
The inflorescence usually consists of a main axis consisting of a peduncle and a rachis.
A unique feature of the emu feather is the double rachis emerging from a single shaft.
There is a blackish spot at the base of the pinna where it joins the rachis.
The seeds detached from the rachis have less radioresistance than the attached ones.
Shoots and complete plants were regenerated from rachis and shoot callus.
The underside of the rachis is covered with small, pale scales.
Spines may be present on the midrib of leaflets and the rachis of compound leaves.
The rachis is generally smooth, but in some species it is slightly spiny.
Reddish brown scales and hairs cover both the stipe and rachis.
Of morphotype C only a single rachis has been preserved.
Feathers had been worked by cutting the barbs and cropped very close to the rachis.
The rachis and stipe are often light green, particularly when young.
The palm regimes or fruit regimes in the agricultural vocabulary is a rachis carrying some spikes.
The rachis is smooth and dark, but occasionally has a few scattered scales.
The dikaryon was isolated from infected kernels and from the rachis of infected spikes.

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