spadices
- plural of spadix.
Example Sentences
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The flowers are borne in enormous fleshy spadices, the male and female on distinct plants.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
P: And tilled fields and heavy-sheathed palm-trees, S: And cornfields and palm-trees having fine spadices?
From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf
The flowers spring in branching spadices from the axils of the leaves, and as the trees are unisexual it is necessary in cultivation to fertilize the female flowers by artificial means.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
