spathe 的定义
Botany.
- a bract or pair of bracts, often large and colored, subtending or enclosing a spadix or flower cluster.
spathe 近义词
等同于 sheath
更多spathe例句
- The striped spathe in some species of Arisaema bears a curious resemblance to the head of a cobra uplifted to strike.
- The whole of the spadix is surrounded by a large bract or spathe which is contracted a little distance above its base.
- Aquatic, with the aspect of sea-weeds or mosses, with minute naked flowers from a spathe-like involucre.
- Aquatics, with dicious or polygamous flowers from a spathe; outer perianth calyx-like, the inner sometimes wanting.
- Aquatic, with more or less irregular perfect flowers from a spathe; perianth corolla-like.