Definition of Rhaphide

1. Noun. (alternative form of raphide) ¹

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Definition of Rhaphide

1. a needle-like crystal [n RHAPHIDES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhaphide

rhamnoside
rhamnosides
rhamnoxanthin
rhamnulokinase
rhamnulose
rhamnuses
rhamphorhynchoid
rhamphorhynchus
rhamphothecae
rhaphae
rhaphania
rhaphe
rhaphes
rhaphide (current term)
rhaphides
rhaphis
rhaponticine
rhapsode
rhapsoder
rhapsoders
rhapsodes
rhapsodic
rhapsodical
rhapsodically
rhapsodies
rhapsodise
rhapsodised
rhapsodises

Literary usage of Rhaphide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"rhaphide*. Needle-shaped crystals often occurring In bundles within the cells of certain plants. ..."

2. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"469. A few cells of Locust-bark, a crystal in each, 470. A detached cell, with rhaphide« being forced ont, as happens when put in water ..."

3. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray (1868)
"... or none but filled with the large fleshy embryo in Nos. 2, 4, and 5. A large family, chiefly tropical. Herbage abounding in slender rhaphide.«. ..."

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