After fertilisation has taken place the spathe and the spadix soon wither away, and the ovaries develop into a cluster of large berry-like fruits, each containing a few seeds.
The whole of the spadixis surrounded by a large bract or spathe which is contracted a little distance above its base.
Herbs with net-veined, radical leaves; and small flowers on a fleshy spadix enclosed in a leafy sheath.
It is the male palm which produces it; and it must be extracted just as the tree is about to expand its spadix of flowers.
The four tentacles of the anti-spadix are set, three on one base and one on a separate base.
The anti-spadix and the reduction of the inner inferior lobe are also male peculiarities.
The spadix is in fact the hectocotylized portion of the fore-foot of the male nautilus.
The spadix (in the male), the hectocotylized portion of the left inner lobe of the fore-foot representing four modified tentacles, eight being left unmodified.
The spathe is light green, more or less striped with brown, especially on the inside; the spadix is also green and has the tiny flowers clustered about its base.
The florets are complete, having six sepals and stamens; they are set closely on the swollen spadix and attract many flies and even water snails that cross-fertilize them simply by crawling over the clubs.
F, G, H), and consists of the spadix bearing the gonads covered by a single layer of ectoderm (ex.
The gonads (g) are produced on the manubrium, which has a hollow endodermal axis, termed the spadix (sp.
In B the spadix of the upper bud has protruded itself through the top of the gonotheca and the acrocyst (ac) is secreted round it.
The endodermal spadix (sp) of the sporosac represents the endoderm of the manubrium; the ectodermal lining of the sporosac (ex.
Sporosac springing from m, a modified hydriform person (blastostyle): the genitalia are seen surrounding the spadix or manubrium.
Spadix interfoliar, stalked, elongated, paniculate, with pendulous flower-bearing ultimate divisions and numerous long spathes.
After the fruit has ripened the spadix will be found to have grown considerably, the spathe meantime having decayed.
We camped near the railway station, and found the piles of wooden sleepers very easily split and very useful for our fires.
One of the trains which was wrecked by him contained many thousands of new canteens which, months afterwards, could be seen lying by the side of the line, reduced to their original factor of sheet iron.
The spathe of Arum maculatum is sometimes represented by a stalked leaf similar to that which occurs, under ordinary circumstances, in Spathiphyllum, but in which genus the spadix is more or less adherent to the leaf-like spathe.
The spadix of Arum, as also of the cocoa-nut palm, has been observed flattened out, apparently without increase in the number of organs.
Marsh or aquatic herbs, with nerved and linear sessile leaves, and monoecious flowers on a spadix or in heads, destitute of proper floral envelopes.
Fruit small obliquely ovate pointed drupes, each raised on a slender stalk which appears after flowering; the spadix itself also then raised on an elongated thread-form peduncle.
Spadix cylindrical, lateral, sessile, emerging from the side of a simple 2-edged scape which resembles the leaves, densely covered with perfect flowers.
Spadix cylindrical, borne on the side of a leaf-like scape.
Spadix oblong, entirely covered with flowers; the lower perfect and 6-androus; the upper often of stamens only.
Flowers monoecious, thickly covering the long and tapering spadix throughout (or only its apex naked).
At Javita a salt is fabricated by the incineration of the spadix and fruit of the palm-tree seje or chimu.
The endoderm of the spadix of the hydranths is of a rich orange colour, which becomes paler as it descends towards the less highly organized stem.
This is the spadix bearing the naked flowers, which are perfect, consisting of a four-angled style and four awl-shaped stamens.
American plant Arisæma triphyllum, or Indian turnip, in which the upright spadix is inclosed.
A bee crawling back and forth over the spadix gets thoroughly dusted, and flying off to another cluster of florets cross-fertilizes them - that is, if all goes well.
At the top of the thick rounded spadix within, the skunk cabbage florets there first mature their stigmas, and pollen must therefore be carried to them on the bodies of visitors.
A poor relation of the stately calla lily one knows Jack to be at a glance, her lovely white robe corresponding to his striped pulpit, her bright yellow spadix to his sleek reverence.
The old spadix continues to give a little juice for another month, after which it withers; so that there are sometimes two pots attached to a tree at one time, but never more.
When the flowering branch is half shot, the toddy-drawers bind the stock round with a young coco-nut leaf in several places, and beat the spadix with a short baton of ebony.
A coco-nut frequently pushes out a new spadix once a month; and after each spadix begins to bleed, it continues to produce freely for a month, by which time another is ready to supply its place.
The spadix is cylindrical, slender, terminating in along, whip-like extremity, much longer than the spathe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spadix" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ament; cone; head; spike
