Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, surrounded or furnished with a spathe; spathaceous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having a spathe or calyx like a sheath.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having a
spathe orcalyx like asheath .
Etymologies
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spathe + -ed
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Examples
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Varieties of the plant, three -- the white, green and purple spathed.
General directions for collecting and drying medicinal substances of the vegetable kingdom : list and description of indigenous plants, etc., their medicinal properties, forms of administration, and doses, Confederate States of America. Surgeon General 1862
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