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adjectivespadiceous (comparative more spadiceous, superlative most spadiceous)
comparative more spadiceous · superlative most spadiceous
- archaicOf a bright clear brown or chestnut colour.
Of those five [horns] which Scaliger beheld, though one spadiceous, or of a light red, and two inclining to red, yet was there not any of this complexion among them.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC - archaicbiologyBearing flowers on a spadix; of similar to a spadix.
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- Latinspadix
- Englishspadiceous
From Latin spadix, spadicis (“a date-brown or nut-brown color”). See spadix.
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spadiceous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spadiceous
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“spadiceous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spadiceous. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spadiceous,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spadiceous.
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