spĭn'dl
The long stem or body of an arrow or spear
Act of turning on one foot.
The main, often long or slender part of a plant that usually grows upward above the ground and supports other parts, such as branches and leaves. Plants have evolved a number of tissue arrangements in the stem. Seedless vascular plants (such as mosses and ferns) have primary vascular tissue in an inner core, a cylindrical ring, or individual strands scattered amid the ground tissue. In eudicots, magnoliids, and conifers, the stem develops a continuous cylindrical layer or a ring of separate bundles of vascular tissue (including secondary vascular tissue) embedded in the ground tissue. In monocots and some herbaceous eudicots, individual strands of primary vascular tissue are scattered in the ground tissue.
A rolling pin.
The main axis of a pinnately compound leaf or of a fern frond.
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(Bot.) The main stem or axis of a plant
Spike lavender
Any of the small posts that support the handrail of a railing, as on a staircase
The definition of an axis is a real or imaginary line on which something rotates, or a straight line around which things are evenly arranged.
A leveling rod.
muscle spindle
A sensory receptor in a muscle that responds to the stretching of tissue.
Any of numerous predatory insects of the order Odonata, having large eyes, a long slender body, and two pairs of transparent veined wings, especially those of the order Anisoptera, which hold the wings outstretched when at rest, as distinguished from the damselflies.
meiosis mitosis
A network of protein fibers that forms in the cytoplasm of a cell during cell division. The spindle grows forth from the centrosomes and attaches to the chromosomes after the latter have been duplicated, and the nuclear membrane dissolves. Once attached, the spindle fibers contract, pulling the duplicate chromosomes apart to opposite poles of the dividing cell.
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