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单词 spadiceous
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spadiceousadj.

Brit. /speɪˈdɪʃəs/, U.S. /speɪˈdɪʃəs/, /spəˈdɪʃəs/
Etymology: < modern Latin spadiceus, < Latin spādīc- , spādīx spadix n.
Now Botany.
1. Of a reddish or brownish colour.Applied to various shades by different writers.
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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.
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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).
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