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spathe

NOUN
  1. a conspicuous bract surrounding or subtending a spadix or other inflorescence

How To Use spathe In A Sentence

  • Products made out of biodegradable materials like sisal and areca spathes were also on show at the Town Hall.
  • Racemes two, both sessile, or one sessile and the other pedicelled on a peduncle which is more or less sheathed by a proper spathe, divaricate or deflexed. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The kalo leaves are eaten like spinach (_luau_), and the flowers (spathe and spadix), cooked in the leaves of the cordyline Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands
  • A spathe of calyptrous glume involucrumines the perinanthean Finnegans Wake
  • Fresh from the flower spathes of the cocoanut-tree, _namu_ tastes like a very light, creamy beer or mead. White Shadows in the South Seas
  • All the paintings have been done on the spathe of the areca palm, called ‘paala’ in Malayalam.
  • Four of the five bracts that enclose and protect the plant's spathe and spadix now have fallen.
  • The _leaf-sheath_ is glabrous or slightly hairy, the upper ones being shorter and dilated into spathes with subulate tips. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • Racemes two, both sessile, or one sessile and the other pedicelled on a peduncle which is more or less sheathed by a proper spathe, divaricate or deflexed. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • (* I have carefully counted how many flowers are contained in a square inch on each amentum, from 100 to 120 of which are found united in one spathe.) Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3
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