rachis

Example Sentences

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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

The distal ends of these girdles give off several branches, which traverse the petiole and rachis as numerous collateral bundles.

From Project Gutenberg

Spikelets falling singly from the unjointed rachis of the spike or the ultimate branches of the panicle.

From Project Gutenberg