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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | © A Dictionary of Plant Sciences 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

rachis In a plant, the axis that bears the flower or, if the plant has compound leaves, the leaflets. See also PINNATE.

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