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What is a spadix?

What is a spadix? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (botany) A fleshy spike (inflorescence) with reduced flowers, usually enclosed by a spathe, characteristic of aroids.
  2. (zoology) A special organ of the nautilus, due to a modification of the posterior tentacles.
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The spathe is still clinging to the spadix, but it looks slightly more bulbous and cabbagelike than it did yesterday.
Four of the five bracts that enclose and protect the plant's spathe and spadix now have fallen.
In the male zone, the mature spadix is lined with longitudinal resiniferous canals located at the base of the stamens.
Showing in succession female flowers, male flowers, and sterile flowers forming a ring of hairs borne on the spadix.
The relatively long rostrum, as represented by the orbitonasal length, is nearest to that of spadix.
The perfect bloom was not expected because visitors had hurled stones at the flower, bruising the spadix.

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