RHACHIS

Definitions: RHACHIS

1. A central cord of the ovary of nematodes.

2. The median part of the radula of a mollusk.

3. The central cord in the stem of a crinoid.

4. The shaft of a feather. The rhachis of the after-shaft, or plumule, is called the hyporhachis.

5. The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb.

6. The continued stem or midrib of a pinnately compound leaf, as in a rose leaf or a fern.

7. The spine.

Derivations: RHACHIS

Anagrams: RHACHIS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-h-h-i-r-s"
	-1 letter: chairs, rachis.
	-2 letters: chair, chars, chias, crash, hairs, harsh.
	-3 letters: airs, arch, arcs, asci, cars, cash, char, chia, chis, cris, hahs, hair, hash, ichs, rash, rias, rich, sari, scar, shah, shri.
	-4 letters: air, ais, arc, ars, ash, car, chi, cis, hah, has, hic, his, ich, rah, ras, ria, sac, sha, shh, sic, sir, sri.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-h-h-i-r-s"
	+2 letters: hierarchs, hipparchs, pushchair, rhachides, rhachises.
	+3 letters: archbishop, archerfish, haircloths, hatcheries, heresiarch, hexarchies, highchairs, pushchairs, thearchies.
	+4 letters: amphibrachs, archbishops, archduchies, cherishable, harpsichord, heptarchies, heresiarchs, hierarchies, ichthyosaur, scholarship, searchlight, wheelchairs.
	+5 letters: archerfishes, chairmanship, coauthorship, harpsichords, hierarchizes, holophrastic, ichthyosaurs, scholarships, searchlights.
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Alternative Orthography: RHACHIS

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Derivations
	Words beginning with "RHACHIS": rhachises. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).