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Definition of Rhaphe
1. Noun. A ridge that forms a seam between two parts.
Specialized synonyms: Palatine Raphe
Group relationships: Scrotum
Generic synonyms: Ridge
Definition of Rhaphe
1. n. The continuation of the seed stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam.
Definition of Rhaphe
1. raphe [n -PHAE or -PHES] - See also: raphe
Medical Definition of Rhaphe
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhaphe
Literary usage of Rhaphe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"The rhaphe-bearing may therefore be called the dorsal side of the anatropous ovule.
The same is true in the case of numerous ovules, viz., those of one half ..."
2. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"The rhaphe-bearing may therefore be called the dorsal side of the anatropous ovule.
The same is true in the case of numerous ovules, viz., those of one half ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... longest spines 1 to 1J inches long ; (lowers 1J inches wide ; seeds 3 lines
in diameter, with a more prominent and broader rhaphe than its allies. ..."
4. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"... with a more prominent and broader rhaphe than its allies. Several other Opuntia,
belonging to this last section, all with red flowers and'fleshy fruit, ..."
5. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray (1897)
"Seeds with crusta- ceous coat and a loose-cellular crest to the rhaphe. • • •
Petals 4 to 6, usually crumpled in the bud, thin and broad, deciduous after ..."
6. Botany All the Year Round: A Practical Text-book for Schools by Eliza Frances Andrews (1903)
"The chalaza remains at the base, ch, which is nt now by inversion at the top;
but as the stalk, or rhaphe, is adherent to the coats, . , , it can not break ..."
7. Essentials of vegetable pharmacognosy: A Treatise on Structural Botany by Henry Hurd Rusby, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1895)
"A merely recurved ovule is not to be mistaken for an anatropous ovule. The latter
has the contiguous portion of the funicle adherent as a rhaphe, ..."
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