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
Zamia, except that the ends of the stamens are flat, while the apices of the carpels are peltate.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs; On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps; All below duly travell’d and still I mount and mount.
From The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Gilchrist, Anne Burrows
On removing the plaster, it will be found that the drop has been broken up into thousands of minute needle-shaped particles arranged in cones, the apices being in the direction of the tail.
From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by Arnoux, L.
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