Word.ws English Dictionary

rhaphis

rhaphis is the alternative form of raphide.

Meaning of raphide

Noun

raphide (plural raphides)

  1. A crystal of calcium oxalate, shaped like a needle, which forms as a metabolic byproduct in some plant cells.

Forms of rhaphis

pluralrhaphides

Questions about rhaphis

What is rhaphis the alternative form of?
Rhaphis is the alternative form of raphide.

Words near rhaphis in the dictionary

  1. rhaphides
  2. rhaphidophorid
  3. rhaphidophoridan
  4. rhaphidophoridans
  5. rhaphidophorids
  6. rhaphis
  7. rhaphoneidacean
  8. rhaphoneidaceans
  9. rhapontic
  10. rhaponticin
  11. rhaponticine

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rhaphis (page history and authors); raphide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “rhaphis.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rhaphis. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.