Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, spathe-bearing; furnished with or of the nature of a spathe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spathal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having or resembling a
spathe ;spathal .
Etymologies
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spathe + -aceous
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Examples
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Male spikelets are 1 - to 2-flowered, subsessile, distichous, jointed on rigid peduncled spikes, which are collected in umbels and surrounded by spathaceous leafy bracts.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _male inflorescence_ consists of several spikes, 1 to 3 inches long, forming umbels, with membranous leafy spathaceous bracts which are shorter than the spikes.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Inflorescences consist of spiciform racemes with spathaceous bracts; rachis is jointed.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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