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Definition of Spathes
1. spathe [n] - See also: spathe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spathes
Literary usage of Spathes
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)
"spathes very unequal in length. angustifolium. Mill. ... Sts. more narrowly
winged, usually without any If. below the fork: spathes shorter: pedicels longer ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Several of the spathes in various stages of development are usually found upon
... A drink and a kind of sugar arc made from the sap of the young spathes. ..."
3. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"Scape compressed ; spathes terminal with scarious borders. Perianth-tube short,
rarely long ; sepals large, stipitate, reflexed, stipes channelled ; petals ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"Several of the spathes in various stages of development are usually found upon
... A drink and a kind of sugar are made from the sap of the young spathes. ..."
5. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"When the spathes of the fruit bearing trees appear, the toddy drawer ... to the
top of tlic tree, binds the spathes tightly with things to prevent ..."
6. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1863)
"MAXWELL T. MASTERS, MD Opening of Palm spathes with an Audible Report. Kein,
April 5. After drawing up the article in your Journal (p. ..."
7. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"... spathes, from 2 to 3 inches iu length, sheathing the stem, their margins involute.
Scapes forked. Rn- cemes 2, (in our specimen,) each producing 6 ..."
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