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Definition of Spadices
1. spadix [n] - See also: spadix
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spadices
Literary usage of Spadices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... leaves in a terminal crown or rosette, spadices erect at first, but later
drooping, spathes two, flowers white or yellow, fruit of various forms. ..."
2. Voyage To, and Travels Through the Four Principal Islands of the African by M. Bory de Saint-Vincent (1805)
"Having reflected that the heat which I thought I observed in the medulla of the
spadices, might only have arisen from their exterior surface, ..."
3. Forest Flora of British Burma by Sulpiz Kurz (1877)
"Female spadices with a pectinate-toothed sterile lamina tapering in a ...
Female spadices with a sparingly toothed or almost entire sterile Female ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"spadices diffused, or, if contracted, the [гор*. spathes are flat and persistent
only during an thesis 38. Calamite. 6. Areca Tribe. Key to Subtribes; л. ..."
5. An Inquiry Into the Changes Induced on Atmospheric Air by the Germination of by Daniel Ellis (1807)
"At the same time, he tied the removed surfaces of the spadices round the bulb of
another thermometer, and it rose to 39°. This he repeated several times, ..."
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