How To Use Spathe In A Sentence
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Products made out of biodegradable materials like sisal and areca spathes were also on show at the Town Hall.
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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
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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
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A spathe of calyptrous glume involucrumines the perinanthean
Finnegans Wake
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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
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All the paintings have been done on the spathe of the areca palm, called ‘paala’ in Malayalam.
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Four of the five bracts that enclose and protect the plant's spathe and spadix now have fallen.
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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
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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
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(* 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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The remainder of the march consisted of a series of winding round spurs: at about an average elevation of 6,000 feet found a Pythonium foliis pedalis, spad. apice filiformo recurvo, vel erecto, spathe viridi,
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Always bitterly exuberant, you see life as a pink spathe swathing a yellow spadix.
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Products made out of biodegradable materials like sisal and areca spathes were also on show at the Town Hall.
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Spathes are 1/8 to 1/3 inch long, sessile or pedicellate, green, cymbiform, with subulate tips.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The flower head consists of a spathe and spadix.
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The inflorescence is a panicle consisting of groups of dissimilar spikelets with compressed, boat-shaped spathes on peduncles.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The blame lies with the plant's appearance – it has speckled leaves and its flowers are well-hidden, but their spathe (the special leaf that protects the flowers of an arum) and spadix (the spike on which the flowers are arranged), are said to resemble male and female genitalia.
The power of spring flowers
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At the correct stage of maturity, Narcissi have slightly bowed buds and visible color, and flowers are emerging from the spathes.
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The umbel pod is covered in by the spathe, which often has a pronounced beak.
Garlic Scapes
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The fruits of the crescentia and the lecythis serve as vessels for containing food, while the spathes of the palms, and the bark of trees, furnish caps and garments without a seam.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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It will take a few years to flower but the long yellow spathes that appear in spring before the leaves develop are well worth the wait.
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The flower head consists of a spathe and spadix.
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Now water is collected from the three hundred and sixty veins and, in the form of red blood, entereth the left testicle, where it is decocted, by the heat of temperament inherent in the son of Adam, into a thick, white liquid, whose odour is as that of the palm-spathe.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It has white flowers in a whorled, bracteate raceme, no spathe, roots with tubers.