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Lierne rib

In Gothic vaulting any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another...


Ribbed

Furnished or formed with ribs as a ribbed cylinder ribbed cloth...


Ribbing

An assemblage or arrangement of ribs as the timberwork for the support of an arch or coved ceiling the veins in the leaves of some plants ridges in the fabric of cloth or the like...


Costate

Having ribs or the appearance of ribs Bot having one or more longitudinal ribs...


VerbarFormeret

One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs...


Intercostal

Between the ribs pertaining to or produced by the parts between the ribs as intercostal respiration in which the chest is alternately enlarged and contracted by the intercostal muscles...


Ribwort

A species of plantain Plantago lanceolata with long narrow ribbed leaves called also rib grass ripple grass ribwort plantain...


barrel cactus

any of several large cacti native to the southwestern U S and Mexico having a short cylindrical form with deep vertical ribs and bearing sharp spines They are classed in the genera Ferocactus and Echinocactus...


Bicostate

Having two principal ribs running longitudinally as a leaf...


Binervate

Two nerved applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves...


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