apices's Usage Examples:

In their direction they are erect or reflexed (with their apices downwards), spreading outwards (divergent or patulous), or arched inwards (connivent).

In these instances most of the flowers were abortive, but a few were fertile, which he attributes to the dust of the apices having been wafted by the wind from other plants.

- Like Zamia, except that the ends of the stamens are flat, while the apices of the carpels are peltate.

These two points may be called the apices of the two drifts, for they are analogues of the solar apex on the one-drift theory; they are about 110° apart.

He states that the germ is never to be seen in the seed till the apices (anthers) shed their dust; and that if the stamina be cut out before the apices open, the seed will either not ripen, or be barren if it ripens.

"These prisms may be combined with concave lenses, which correct the myopia, or, since a concave lens may be considered as composed of two prisms united at their apices, the same effect may be obtained by making the distance between the centres of the concave lenses greater than that between the centres of the pupils.

The first contemporary mention of Byrgius's table occurs on page 11 of the " Praecepta " prefixed to Kepler's Tabulae Radolphinae (1627); his words are: " apices logistici J.

In some polypetalous corollas, as that of the vine, the petals are separate at the base and adhere by the apices.

The Eolid-like Nudibranchs, amongst other specialities of structure, possess (in some cases at any rate) apertures at the apices of the " cerata " or dorsal papillae, which lead from the exterior into the hepatic caeca.

These prisms may be combined with concave lenses, which correct the myopia, or, since a concave lens may be considered as composed of two prisms united at their apices, the same effect may be obtained by making the distance between the centres of the concave lenses greater than that between the centres of the pupils.

9) which branch but do not anastomose, and the apices of which keep pace in their growth with that of the other tissues of -, the plant (Anocynaceae, most Eunhorbi(Alter Haberlandt.

Grew says that "when the attire or apices break or open, the globules or dust falls down on the seedcase or uterus, and touches it with a prolific virtue.

Synonyms:

crown, acme, vertex, roof peak, peak, extremum, extreme point, extreme,

Antonyms:

point of periapsis, apoapsis, periapsis, inglorious, divest,