a. Now Bot. [ad. mod.L. spadiceus, f. L. spādīc-, spādīz SPADIX.]

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  1.  Of a reddish or brownish color.

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  Applied to various shades by different writers.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 167. Of those five [horns] which Scaliger beheld, though one spadiceous, or of a light red, and two inclining to red.

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1678.  Ray, Willughby’s Ornith., III. ii. § 16. 371. The Wings are of a dark spadiceous colour.

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1683.  Salmon, Doron Med., II. 350. An oyl … of … a spadicious [sic] or light red color.

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1871.  W. A. Leighton, Lichen-Flora, 124. Under-surface black or spadiceous towards the margins.

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1887.  W. Phillips, Brit. Discomycetes, 376. Hymenium milk-white, farinose, becoming spadiceous.

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  2.  Having the nature or form of a spadix.

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1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., I. xix. (1765), 52. A Spadiceous aggregate Flower is, when there is a Receptacle common to many Florets placed within a Spatha or Sheathe.

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1793.  Martyn, Lang. Bot., s.v. Spadix, A spadiceous flower. A sort of aggregate flower [etc.].

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1830.  Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 252. As many of them are arranged in a spadix, and as most of them have a distinct tendency to that kind of inflorescence, the form is called Spadiceous.

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1858.  A. Irvine, Handbk. Brit. Plants, 280. The following Orders … have the common character of spadiceous, and generally spathaceous inflorescence.

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