rhachis

[ rey-kis ]

noun

, plural rha·chis·es, rhach·i·des [rak, -i-deez, rey, -ki-].

1. a variant of rachis.

rhachis

/ ˈreɪkɪs /

noun

1. a variant spelling of rachis

Example Sentences

Spikelets 1-flowered, with a mere naked short-pedicelled rudiment of a second flower, imbricate-spiked on one side of a flattish rhachis; the spikes usually digitate at the naked summit of the flowering culms.

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Spikelets small, acuminate, 1-flowered, appressed-sessile and scattered along one side of the slender rhachis of the distant sessile and divaricately spreading spikes.

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Spikes solitary, racemed or spiked; the rhachis somewhat extended beyond the spikelets.

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Spikelets 2–6-flowered, with a terminal imperfect flower or naked rudiment, closely imbricate-spiked on one side of a flattish rhachis; the spikes digitate.

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Otherwise nearly as in Vicia.—Our species are perennial and mostly smooth plants, the rhachis of the leaves in some not produced into a tendril.

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