Definition of Spadixes

1. spadix [n] - See also: spadix

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spadixes

spadewise
spadework
spadeworks
spadger
spadgers
spadiceous
spadices
spadicose
spadille
spadilles
spadillo
spadillos
spading
spadish
spadix
spadixes (current term)
spado
spadoes
spadones
spados
spadroon
spadroons
spae
spae-craft
spaed
spaeing
spaeings
spaeman
spaemen
spaer

Literary usage of Spadixes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to Botany by John ( Lindley (1839)
"A thermometer placed in the centre of five spadixes stood at 111°, ... The same observer found that the male parts of six spadixes, deprived of their ..."

2. An Introduction to Botany by John Lindley (1832)
"The greatest degree of heat in these experiments was at sun- The same observer found that the male parts of six rise. spadixes, deprived of their glandular ..."

3. An introduction to botany by John Lindley (1832)
"spadixes stood at 111°, and in'the centre of twelve, at 121°, although the temperature of the external air was only 66°. The greatest degree of heat in ..."

4. An Arabic-English Lexicon: Derived from the Best and the Most Copious by Edward William Lane (1877)
"... niggardly of the spadixes of their [male] palm-trees, and the east wind blew at the time of the fecundation upon the male trees, bearing off [the pollen ..."

5. An Introduction to Botany by John Lindley (1839)
"The same observer found that the male parts of six spadixes, deprived of their glandular part, raised the temperature only to 105° ; and the same number of ..."

6. Principles of Comparative Physiology by William Benjamin Carpenter (1854)
"Thus a thermometer placed in the centre of five spadixes of the Arum Cor- ... of M. Garreau," who has noted the temperature of these spadixes, hour by hour, ..."

7. The London Medical Gazette (1849)
"The same observer found that the male parts of six spadixes. deprived of their glandular part, raised the temperature only to 105°; and the same number of ..."

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