spadix

1. Aquatic plant of the southeastern United States having blue-green leaves and and a club-like spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
   生于美国东南部的一种水生植物，具有蓝绿色的叶子和一个带有黄色小花的、球棒形的佛焰花序。
2. Tropical Asiatic herbs similar to Colocasia but distinguished by a large sterile spadix.
   热带亚洲一个草本属，类似于芋属但以大而不结果的肉穗花序而与之相区别。
3. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
   长有耀眼的纯白色苞和黄色纤维的一种南非种植植物。
4. Common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries. thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction.
   一种美洲春天开花的林地草本植物，具有鞘的叶，一个直立的棒状肉穗状花序，果实为鲜红色。顶端带有易燃物的木棒或纸棒。
5. Spadix rachis flat, margin with bract-like appendages; flowers small, monoecious, in 2 series on rachis, apetalous.
   肉穗花序轴扁平，边缘有苞片状附属物；花小，单性，雌雄同株，呈2列排列于花序轴上，无花被。

noun

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