spathe
/speɪð
/noun Botany
A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster of certain plants, especially the spadix of arums and palms.The flower head consists of a spathe and spadix....
- Four of the five bracts that enclose and protect the plant's spathe and spadix now have fallen.
- Always bitterly exuberant, you see life as a pink spathe swathing a yellow spadix.
Origin
Late 18th century: via Latin from Greek spathē 'broad blade'.
Rhymes
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- martlet
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