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n. A fleshy clublike spike bearing minute flowers, usually enclosed within a sheathlike spathe, characteristic of aroid plants, such as the calla.

n. A fleshy spike (inflorescence) with reduced flowers, usually enclosed by a spathe.

n. A special organ of the nautilus, due to a modification of the posterior tentacles.

n. A fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe.

n. A special organ of the nautilus, due to a modification of the posterior tentacles.

n. In botany, a form of inflorescence in plants, in which the flowers are closely arranged in a spike or head which has a fleshy or thickened rachis.

n. In zoology:

n. The hectocotylus of the male cephalopod: a specialized part of the fore foot, on one side, which becomes hectocotylized, or assumes a sexual function. On the opposite side is a corresponding part, not subject to hectocotylization, called the antispadix.

n. In Hydrozoa, the manubrium of the hydromedusans, an offset of a blastostyle bearing the genital products, like the part of a pea-pod which bears the peas.

n. A genus of cœlenterates.

n. the fleshy axis of a spike often surrounded by a spathe

"When emerging above the ground, the flower shows itself as a pale-green, bud-shaped configuration composed of a petal-like spathe that surrounds a central spike-like spadix, which is concealed inside at first, and eventually grows in size and finally revealing itself as the entire flower swells."

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