Spadix Definition

spādĭks
spadices, spadix
noun
A fleshy spike of tiny flowers, usually enclosed in a spathe.
Webster's New World

(zoology) A special organ of the nautilus, due to a modification of the posterior tentacles.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Spadix

Noun

Singular:
spadix
Plural:
spadices

Origin of Spadix

  • Latin spādīx broken-off palm branch from Greek from spān to stretch

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Via Latin from Ancient Greek, literally "palm branch."

    From Wiktionary

Spadix Sentence Examples

  • G, With spadix prolonged e.1, Endoderm-lamella.

  • The spadix forms a gelatinous cyst, the so-called acrocyst (ac), external to the gonotheca (gth), enclosing and protecting the embryos.

  • In B the spadix of the upper bud has protruded itself through the top of the gonoat the base of the theca and the acrocyst (ac) is secreted round it.

  • Showing in borne on the spadix.

  • These are followed by the inflorescence, a fleshy spadix bearing in the lower part numerous closely crowded simple unisexual flowers and continued above into a purplish or yellowish appendage; the spadix is enveloped by a leafy spathe, constricted in the lower part to form a chamber, in which are the flowers.

More Sentences

Find Similar Words

Find similar words to spadix using the buttons below.

Words Starting With

SSPSPA

Words Ending With

XIXDIX

Unscrambles

spadix

Words Starting With S and Ending With X

Starts With S & Ends With XStarts With SP & Ends With XStarts With S & Ends With IX

Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With S6 Letter Words Ending With X