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) (archaic)

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 similar to a spadix.

Synonyms

• spadicose

References

• “spadiceous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• dipsaceous