Thesaurus / spathe
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How to use spathe in a sentence
The striped spathe in some species of Arisaema bears a curious resemblance to the head of a cobra uplifted to strike.
THE PANJAB, NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE, AND KASHMIRSIR JAMES MCCRONE DOUIEThe whole of the spadix is surrounded by a large bract or spathe which is contracted a little distance above its base.
FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTSWILLIAM S. FURNEAUXAquatic, with the aspect of sea-weeds or mosses, with minute naked flowers from a spathe-like involucre.
THE MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATESASA GRAYAquatics, with dicious or polygamous flowers from a spathe; outer perianth calyx-like, the inner sometimes wanting.
THE MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATESASA GRAYAquatic, with more or less irregular perfect flowers from a spathe; perianth corolla-like.
THE MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATESASA GRAYFlowers polygamo-dicious, solitary and sessile from a sessile tubular 2-cleft axillary spathe.
THE MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATESASA GRAYFertile flowers solitary and sessile in a tubular spathe upon an exceedingly lengthened scape.
THE MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATESASA GRAYSpathe elongated, convolute throughout or with a dilated blade above.
THE MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATESASA GRAYFruit in a globose cluster, enclosed by the persistent fleshy base of the spathe.
THE MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATESASA GRAYSpathe open and spreading, ovate (abruptly pointed, the upper surface white), persistent.
THE MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATESASA GRAYWORDS RELATED TO SPATHE
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