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A special involucre formed of one leaf and inclosing a spadix, as in aroid plants and palms. See the Note under Bract, and Illust. of Spadix.

Having a spathe or calyx like a sheath.

d in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example. Our common arums the lords and ladies of village children. Lubbock.

ot.), the monkshood. -- Friar's cowl (Bot.), an arumlike plant (Arisarum vulgare) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl. -- Friar's lantern, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp. Milton. -- Friar skate (Zoöl.), the European white or sharpnosed skate (Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, border ray,…

A great Brazilian palm (Maximiliana regia), having immense spathes which are used for baskets and tubs.

ntain colley. See Ousel. -- Mountain pride, or Mountain green (Bot.), a tree of Jamaica (Spathelia simplex), which has an unbranched palmlike stem, and a terminal cluster of large, pinnate leaves. -- Mountain quail (Zoöl.), the plumed partridge (Oreortyx pictus) of California. It has two long, slender, plumelike feat…

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

A spathe.

Having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spathal.

Furnished with a spathe; as, spathal flowers. Howitt.

Having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spatheceous; spathal.

An aroid herb (Calla palustris) having a white spathe. It is an inhabitant of the north temperate zone.