spadiceousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /spəˈdɪʃiəs/, /spəˈdɪʃəs/

形容詞

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.

同意語

• spadicose

参照

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

アナグラム

• dipsaceous