Word Meanings - RHACHIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The spine. The continued stem or midrib of a pinnately compound leaf, as in a rose leaf or a fern. The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb. The shaft of a feather. The rhachis of the after-shaft, or plumule, is called

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The spine. The continued stem or midrib of a pinnately compound leaf, as in a rose leaf or a fern. The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb. The shaft of a feather. The rhachis of the after-shaft, or plumule, is called the hyporhachis. The central cord in the stem of a crinoid. The median part of the radula of a mollusk. A central cord of the ovary of nematodes.

Related words: (words related to RHACHIS)

• MIDRIB
  A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.
• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CORYMBED
  Corymbose.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• CONTINUABLE
  Capable of being continued
• CONTINUANT
  Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound. -- n.
• FEATHERNESS
  The state or condition of being feathery.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• SPINEL; SPINELLE
  A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also
• SPINED
  Furnished with spines; spiny.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• SHAFTING
  Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• SPINEL
  Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle. Knight.
• FEATHER-FEW
  Feverfew.
• FEATHER-VEINED
  Having the veins diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
• CONTINUITY
  the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• RECONTINUANCE
  The act or state of recontinuing.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.