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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

raph•i•des n.pl. [Bot.]

Botanyacicular crystals, usually composed of calcium oxalate, that occur in bundles in the cells of many plants.

Greek rhaphídes, plural of rhaphís needle
Neo-Latin
1835–45

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