Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a bright-brown color; bay; chestnut.
- In botany, bearing or having the nature of a spadix. See petaloideous, endogen, and Monocotyledones. Also
spadicious .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of a bright clear brown or chestnut color.
- adjective (Bot.) Bearing flowers on a spadix; of the nature of a spadix.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of a bright clear
brown orchestnut colour. - adjective botany Bearing
flowers on aspadix ; of the nature of a spadix.
Etymologies
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Latin spadix, spadicis, a date-brown or nut-brown color. See spadix.
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biocon commented on the word spadiceous
In addition, spadiceous means "of a reddish color" (OED).
March 3, 2012