spathe
Example Sentences
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The pod-like leaf called a spathe is slightly rounder and paler than the darker, flatter blades of seagrass.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The real show starts when the enormous outer layer called a spathe opens up, revealing a deep reddish interior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Its hoodlike structure is called a spathe, which envelopes a bulb-shaped structure called the spadix, a fleshy knob dotted by dozens of tiny, petal-less yellow flowers.
From Salon ● May 27, 2025
The tiny white flowers within the spathe are an important food source for the first pollinators of the year.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
Flowers polygamo-diœcious, solitary and sessile from a sessile tubular 2-cleft axillary spathe.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
