Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, relating to or formed like a spathe; spathaceous; spathal.
  • In mineralogy, sparry; of the nature of spar; occurring in broad plates or lamellæ; foliated in texture.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Min.) See spathic.
  • adjective (Bot.) Having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spatheceous; spathal.

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  • adjective botany Having or resembling a spathe.

Etymologies

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See spathe.

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