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raphe

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹeɪ.fi/Part of speech nounSorted aehprStarts with REnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a ridge that forms a seam between two parts

Word origin

Borrowed from New Latin raphē, from Ancient Greek ῥᾰφή (rhăphḗ, “seam; suture”).

Used in a sentence

  • They are inserted into the midline raphae or the anococcygeal raphae and the coccyx.
  • The vast majority of the raphes do not bifurcate (123 genera), but the raphes of 7 genera do.
  • The invariant occurrence of adhesive EPS at both the driving and the non-driving raphes supports a model for constitutive, rather than induced, secretion of the raphe adhesive.

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