Crossword-Solution: SPADIX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spadix | n. | A fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe. |
| Spadix | n. | A special organ of the nautilus, due to a modification of the posterior tentacles. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Floral spike | 1 answer |
| Spike of tiny flowers | 1 answer |
| The jack in a jack-in-the-pulpit | 1 answer |
| flower part | 36 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
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greedy person
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Sentences with SPADIX (5)
Besides the spadix and the fruit of the seje palm, the Indians of Javita lixiviate also the ashes of the famous liana called cupana, which is a new species of the genus paullinia, consequently a very different plant from the cupania of Linnaeus.
Skunk or Swamp Cabbage _Symplocarpus foetidus_ _Flowers_--Minute, perfect, foetid; many scattered over a thick, rounded, fleshy spadix, and hidden within a swollen, shell-shaped, purplish-brown to greenish-yellow, usually mottled, spathe, close to the ground, that appears before the leaves.
Next, of course, the common Arum, {218c} with snow-white spathe and spadix, mingled with the larger leaves of Balisier, wild Tania, and Seguine, some of the latter upborne on crooked fleshy stalks as thick as a man's leg, and six feet high.
Spadix pedunculum 3-uncial terminans, basi squamis magnis membranaceis, lineari-oblongis stipatus sursum in corpus fungoiden, capitatum, maximum, purpureo-sanguineum, superficie rugose dilatata.
The spadix is cylindrical, slender, terminating in along, whip-like extremity, much longer than the spathe.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1984–2000).