Spa*di"ceous (?), a. [L. spadix, -icis, a date-brown or nut-brown color. See Spadix.]
1.
Of a bright clear brown or chestnut color.
Sir T. Browne.
2. Bot.
Bearing flowers on a spadix; of the nature of a spadix.
© Webster 1913.
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