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spa⋅tha⋅ceous

  [spuh-they-shuhs]
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–adjective Botany.
1. of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
2. having a spathe.
Origin:
1750–60; < NL spathāceus, equiv. to L spath(a) (see spathe ) + -āceus -aceous
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Spathaceous

Spa*tha"ceous\, a. (Bot.) Having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spathal.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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