Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhaphis
Literary usage of Rhaphis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa: In the by Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney, Abraham V. Salamé, Robert Brown, Carl Dietrich Eberhard König (1826)
"He retains it, however, as a distinct genus, for which he has adopted the name
of rhaphis, given to it by Loureiro, by whom it was originally proposed, ..."
2. Flora Hongkongensis: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the by George. Bentham (1861)
"... the awn of the flowering glume protruding to 3 or 4 lines. Male spikelets full
2 lines long, with longer points to the glumes, and no awns.—rhaphis ..."
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