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spadiceous, a. Now Bot.|speɪˈdɪʃəs|
[ad. mod.L. spadiceus, f. L. spādīc-, spādīx spadix.]
1. Of a reddish or brownish colour.
Applied to various shades by different writers.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 167 Of those five [horns] which Scaliger beheld, though one spadiceous, or of a light red, and two inclining to red. 1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. iii. ii. §16. 371 The Wings are of a dark spadiceous colour. 1683Salmon Doron Med, ii. 350 An oyl..of..a spadicious [sic] or light red colour. 1871W. A. Leighton Lichen-Flora 124 Under-surface black or spadiceous towards the margins. 1887W. Phillips Brit. Discomycetes 376 Hymenium milk-white, farinose, becoming spadiceous.
2. Having the nature or form of a spadix.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xix. (1765) 52 A Spadiceous aggregate Flower is, when there is a Receptacle common to many Florets placed within a Spatha or Sheathe. 1793Martyn Lang. Bot. s.v. Spadix, A spadiceous flower. A sort of aggregate flower [etc.]. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 252 As many of them are arranged in a spadix, and as most of them have a distinct tendency to that kind of inflorescence, the form is called Spadiceous. 1858A. Irvine Handbk. Brit. Pl. 280 The following Orders..have the common character of spadiceous, and generally spathaceous inflorescence. |
