apices
Americannoun
noun
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It also exhibits a remarkable asymmetric condition of the neural spines where they alternate from having transversely compressed apices to apices that are expanded to the right.
From Scientific American • Jan. 10, 2013
The carbon atoms he figures at the apices of a hexagon, the benzene "ring."
From Time Magazine Archive
Many species have the extreme apices of the segments pale, but with the apical integument so very thin, often looking nearly transparent and membranous, that its development would be very rapid.
From Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects by Saunders, Edward
Sepals are generally of a more or less oval, elliptical or oblong form, with their apices either blunt or 563 acute.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
The episporic network shows all degrees of perfection or imperfection, and the elater also varies somewhat both in the apices and distinctness of longitudinal stri�.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
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