The spathes are so large that they are used by the Indian women for cradles and baskets; and their wood is so hard, that hunters often cook meat in them, hanging them over the fire when filled with water!
They were nothing more than the spathes or flower-sheaths of one of the largest of palms, the "Inaga.
An increase in the number of the spathes has been often noticed in Arads[396].
The supernumerary spathes are not always on the same level, but may be separated by a considerable interval.
Flowers in long loose spikes issuing from glaucous spathes tinged with red; outer divisions pale yellow; upper lip scarlet edged with a yellow margin; lower lip red, with golden reticulations.
We may also mention the pointed caps, which the spathes of certain palm-trees furnish, and which resemble coarse network.
The rains of winter had unfolded the spathes of the vadgiai palm-tree, the leaves of which rise straight toward the sky.
The fruits of the crescentia and the lecythis serve as vessels for containing food, while the spathes of the palms, and the bark of trees, furnish caps and garments without a seam.
The inflorescence is a panicle consisting of groups of dissimilar spikelets with compressed, boat-shaped spathes on peduncles.
The leaf-sheath is glabrous or slightly hairy, the upper ones being shorter and dilated into spathes with subulate tips.
Just as we were there they were very busy with the spathes, and in Thursday's Market huge baskets of the male spathes were exposed for sale.
Philosophy agrees with this opinion; but adds thereunto that the corollæ of the Monocotyledones may be also merely spathes or involucra.
But reticular leaves are not spathesor simple tubes, but ramified or separated ribs.
The spathes are short, very thin and scarious, and enclose the bases of their rather small solitary flowers, which are "white, lightly striped and blotched with yellow and purple.
Sometimes the exterior coating of grass is not very coarse; at other times bamboo-spathes exclusively are used, and the nest seems to be completely packed up in these.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spathes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
