单词 | spadiceous |
释义 | spadiceousadj. Now Botany. 1. Of a reddish or brownish colour.Applied to various shades by different writers. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > reddish brown russet1428 reddish-brown1530 sorrel1534 berry-brown1575 sored1587 russetish1600 Chelidonian1601 weaselled-coloured1607 deer-coloured1611 spadiceous1646 russeted1654 testaceous1688 russety1697 mahoganya1744 red-brown1786 reddy-brown1845 fusco-testaceous1847 mahogany-brown1881 persimmon1897 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 167 Of those five [horns] which Scaliger beheld, though one spadiceous, or of a light red, and two inclining to red. View more context for this quotation 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. iii. ii. 371 The Wings are of a dark spadiceous colour. 1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum ii. 350 An oyl..of..a spadicious [sic] or light red colour. 1871 W. A. Leighton Lichen-flora 124 Under-surface black or spadiceous towards the margins. 1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 376 Hymenium milk-white, farinose, becoming spadiceous. 2. Having the nature or form of a spadix. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [adjective] > having particular shape, type, or arrangement > of or bearing a spadix spadiceous1760 spadicose1847 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xix. 52 A Spadiceous aggregate Flower is, when there is a Receptacle common to many Florets placed within a Spatha or Sheath. 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. S2 A spadiceous flower. A sort of aggregate flower [etc.]. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. 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. 1858 A. Irvine Handbk. Brit. Plants 280 The following Orders..have the common character of spadiceous, and generally spathaceous inflorescence. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1646 |
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