Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
spadix .
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- noun Plural form of
spadix .
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Examples
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The trunk is exceedingly rough and spiny; the flower spathes, which appear in the axils of the leaves, are woody, and contain branched spadices with many flowers; more than 11,000 have been counted on a single male spadix.
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As the flowers are dioecious, it is necessary to impregnate the female blossoms artificially in order to insure a good crop; and to this end the male spadices are cut off when the pollen is ripe and carefully shaken over the female ones.
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S: And cornfields and palm-trees having fine spadices?
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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S: And the tall palm-trees having spadices closely set one above another,
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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Eredia says that the Malays cured it by the use of a wine made from the nipa palm, from whence we know a saccharine fermentable juice exudes from the cut spadices of this and other species.
Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 W. D. Bayliss 1869
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They grew in large clusters among the bases of the leaves; and Guapo was not long in ascending several trees -- for the jara is a smooth-skinned palm, and can be climbed -- and breaking off the spadices, and flinging them to the ground.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850
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They grew in large clusters among the bases of the leaves; and Guapo was not long in ascending several trees -- for the jara is a smooth-skinned palm, and can be climbed -- and breaking off the spadices, and flinging them to the ground.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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Honesti spadices, says Virgil, (Georgic.l. iii. 72, with the Observations of Martin and
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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