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What is a spathe?

What is a spathe? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (botany) A large bract that envelops or subtends a whole inflorescence, typically a spadix.
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Previous to the sudden bursting, about sunset, of the spathe containing the spadix, there is an accumulation of heat therein.
Always bitterly exuberant, you see life as a pink spathe swathing a yellow spadix.
Four of the five bracts that enclose and protect the plant's spathe and spadix now have fallen.
The spathe is still clinging to the spadix, but it looks slightly more bulbous and cabbagelike than it did yesterday.
I like Scharlockii with it's elongated green spathe, Viridapice for the green splashes on the outer petals.
On examining the tub I have spoken of, we found that it was formed from the spathe of the palm.

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