spadiceous

English

Etymology

From Latin spadix, spadicis (“a date-brown or nut-brown color”). See spadix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spəˈdɪʃiəs/, /spəˈdɪʃəs/

Adjective

spadiceous (comparative more spadiceous, superlative most spadiceous)

1. Of a bright clear brown or chestnut colour.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     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.

2. (botany) Bearing flowers on a spadix; of the nature of a spadix.

Synonyms

• spadicose

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “spadiceous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• dipsaceous