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
The Palpi are small and triangular, with their blunt apices clothed with a very few scattered bristles.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Among the latter there is always a series of dark triangular spots, with apices pointing towards the hind margin.
From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.
It consists of two pear-shaped bulbs of glass, united at their apices and having a minute passage formed between them.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
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