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A fleshy spike (inflorescence) with reduced flowers, usually enclosed by a spathe, characteristic of aroids.

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A male sexual organ of certain cephalopods and hydrozoans (especially the nautilus), used to transfer sperm.

Examples of spadix in a Sentence

G, With spadix prolonged e.1, Endoderm-lamella.

The spadix forms a gelatinous cyst, the so-called acrocyst (ac), external to the gonotheca (gth), enclosing and protecting the embryos.

In B the spadix of the upper bud has protruded itself through the top of the gonoat the base of the theca and the acrocyst (ac) is secreted round it.

Showing in borne on the spadix.

These are followed by the inflorescence, a fleshy spadix bearing in the lower part numerous closely crowded simple unisexual flowers and continued above into a purplish or yellowish appendage; the spadix is enveloped by a leafy spathe, constricted in the lower part to form a chamber, in which are the flowers.

It is often associated with that form of inflorescence termed the spadix, and may be coloured, as in Anthuriuzn, or white, as in arum lily (Richardia aethiopica).

When the spadix is compound or branching, as in palms, there are smaller spathes, surrounding separate parts of the inflorescence.

The spathe wraps around itself to form a space that encloses a spherical head of flowers, called a spadix (figure 2 ).

The gonads (g) are produced on the manubrium, which has a hollow endodermal axis, termed the spadix (sp.), in open communication with the coenosarc of the polyp-colony and serving for the nutrition of the generative cells.

The spathe wraps around itself to form a space that encloses a spherical head of flowers, called a spadix (figure 2).

Golden Club (Orontium) - O. aquaticum is an interesting perennial of the Arum family, 12 to 18 inches high; in early summer its narrow spadix is densely covered with yellow flowers.

The spathe bracts resemble a corolla, and consist of four large pure white spreading leaves from the base of the spadix or cone of flowers.

The endodermal spadix (sp) of the sporosac represents the endoderm of the manubrium; the ectodermal lining of the sporosac (ex.) represents the ex-umbral ectoderm of the medusa; and the intervening layers, together with the sub-umbral cavity, have disappeared.

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