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spadiceous

/spəˈdɪʃiəs/

spadiceous adjective: of a bright clear brown or chestnut colour.

Adjective

spadiceous (comparative more spadiceous, superlative most spadiceous)

  1. (archaic) Of a bright clear brown or chestnut colour.
    • 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.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
  2. (archaic) Bearing flowers on a spadix; of similar to a spadix.

Synonyms of spadiceous

Forms of spadiceous

comparativemore spadiceous
superlativemost spadiceous

Origin of spadiceous

From Latin spadix, spadicis (“a date-brown or nut-brown color”). See spadix.

Questions about spadiceous

What does spadiceous mean?
Spadiceous means of a bright clear brown or chestnut colour.
What part of speech is spadiceous?
Spadiceous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce spadiceous?
Spadiceous is pronounced /spəˈdɪʃiəs/.

Words near spadiceous in the dictionary

  1. spadeworkers
  2. spadger
  3. spadgers
  4. spadia
  5. spadias
  6. spadiceous
  7. spadices
  8. spadicifloral
  9. spadiciform
  10. spadicose
  11. spadilio

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