Spikelets several-flowered, narrow, erect and scattered along the slender rhachis of the long spicate spikes; flowers all perfect or the uppermost staminate.
Spikelets densely imbricated in two rows on one side of the flat curved rhachis of the solitary terminal spike.
Stipe and rhachis rather stout, brown, covered with narrow chaffy scales and whitish hairs.
Spikelets small, panicled, of 2 perfect flowers and the hairy pedicel or rudiment of a third (rarely staminate); rhachis hairy.
Our species are perennial and mostly smooth plants, the rhachis of the leaves in some not produced into a tendril.
Spikelets small, acuminate, 1-flowered, appressed-sessile and scattered along one side of the slender rhachis of the distant sessile and divaricately spreading spikes.
Spikelets spicate, in pairs, the pedicellate sterile or rudimentary; rhachis bearded.
The rhachisof the after-shaft, or plumule, is called the hyporhachis.
Defn: The rhachis and web of a feather taken together; the vane.
Defn: The rhachisand web of a feather taken together.
Leaflets ovate or nearly so, with obtuse or acute apex; rhachis somewhat pubescent.
These feathers are specially interesting, inasmuch as they retain throughout life a stage corresponding to that seen in the very young cassowary, the calamus being greatly swollen, and supporting a very degenerate rhachis and vane.
This is shown by the fact that in the nestling these remiges have a normal calamus, rhachis and vane; but as development proceeds the rhachis with its vane sloughs off, while the calamus becomes enormously lengthened and solid.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rhachis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
