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
- not give (or care) a fig
- not give (or care) a monkey's
- not give (or care) a rat's ass
- not give (or care) a whoop
- not give something houseroom
- not-go
- not go any further
- not guilty
- not half
- no thanks to
- not have a bar of
- not have a cat in hell's chance
- not have a leg to stand on
- not have a penny to bless oneself with
- not have a pot to piss in
- not have a prayer
- not have a shot in one's locker
- not have a —— bone in one's body
- not have the faintest
- not have the foggiest (idea or notion)
- not have two pennies (or farthings etc.) to rub together
- nothing
- nothingarian
- nothingarianism
- nothing but