rhachides
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Noun[edit]
rhachides
- plural of rhachis
- 2015 July 16, Junchang Lü, Stephen L. Brusatte, “A large, short-armed, winged dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of China and its implications for feather evolution”, in Scientific Reports[1], volume 5, :
- However, the rhachides in the proximal portion of the tail of Zhenyuanlong appear to be longer than those of Microraptor 5 6 and Changyuraptor 10, which had relatively small and simple feathers proximally on the tail but much larger and more complex feathers distally, which expanded outwards into a large fan.