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Spadix   Listen
noun
Spadix  n.  (pl. L. spadices, E. spadixes)  
1.
(Bot.) A fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe.
2.
(Zool.) A special organ of the nautilus, due to a modification of the posterior tentacles.





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... A horse of a bay or red color was styled by the Greeks, balan by the Barbarians, and spadix by the Romans. Honesti spadices, says Virgil, (Georgic. l. iii. 72, with the Observations of Martin and Heyne.) It signifies a branch of the palm-tree, whose name is synonymous to ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon


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