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rachis

[rey-kis] / ˈreɪ kɪs /
NOUN
spinal column
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The monk Rachis strove again for the sovereignty, which Desiderius, duke in Tuscany, contested.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.

The father of the Lombard king Rachis was called Pimo.

From Surnames as a Science by Ferguson, Robert

After King Rachis there succeeded to the realm of Lombardy, and to that of Apulia, Astolf, called in-50- Latin Telofre, brother of the said Rachis.

From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Villani, Giovanni

On the resignation of Rachis the true Lombard spirit had raised his brother Aistulf to the throne.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.

Rachis not fragile; spikelets in cylindrical silvery thyrsus 18.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.