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Definition of Spadix
1. Noun. The fleshy axis of a spike often surrounded by a spathe.
Definition of Spadix
1. n. A fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe.
Definition of Spadix
1. Noun. (botany) A fleshy spike (inflorescence) with reduced flowers, usually enclosed by a spathe. ¹
2. Noun. (zoology) A special organ of the nautilus, due to a modification of the posterior tentacles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spadix
1. a flower cluster [n -DICES or -DIXES]
Medical Definition of Spadix
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Spadix
Literary usage of Spadix
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... 6 in. long; spadix with the female fls. below, the male above, the two separated
by a sterile portion and the top of the spadix also sterile. China. ..."
2. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"spadix, a spike or head with a fleshy or thickened rhachis. The term is almost
restricted to the Arum family and Palms, and to cases in which the ..."
3. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"spadix greenish; the upper part tapering into a slender point, which rises 2—4
inches ... Anthers sessile, covering the upper part of the spadix in a tes- ..."
4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"spadix elongated, enveloped in u spathe; flowers destitute of perianth, monoecious or
... spadix globose, enveloped in a very fleshy ovoid spathe ; flowers ..."
5. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"spadix slender, acuminate, shorter than the spathe, its compact stamens 6-sided.
... Scape rather taller, bearing a cylindric spadix within the large', ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... the primary veins and margins dark red, the redness disappearing very much in
adult plants: branches of the spadix longer and more reflexed. ,l MCI,n G. ..."
7. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"spadix attached to the side of the flattened leaf-like scape. 1. ... spadix covered
below with monoecious or dioecious flowers (the lower ones fertile), ..."
8. Flora of the southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"spadix adnate to the spathe. 4. PISTIA. Free-floating aquatics. ... spadix attached
to the side of the flattened leaf-like scape. 1. ..."
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