How to Use spadix in a Sentence

spadix

noun

• The odor comes from the spadix, which heats up to about 98 degrees to strengthen the smell.
  — Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
• These white leaves provide a beautiful backdrop for the rod-like spadix, which contains the true peace lily blossoms.
  — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 6 Feb. 2026
• The spathe is a curvaceous, hood-like, modified leaf or bract that attracts insects with its color and then traps them against the spadix, ensuring pollination.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
• Native to Indonesia, the flower closed its spathe Friday and its yellow spadix will fall off, Underwood said.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 31 Oct. 2025
• Visitors may have noticed that Odorysseus’ spadix — the conic protrusion emerging upward from the plant — was much taller than Odora’s, which had caved in.
  — Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
• All of these are members of the aroid family (Araceae) and are easily recognizable by their flowering apparatus, consisting of a spadix and a spathe.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
• What appears to be a single bloom is actually an enormous inflorescence, a cluster of many tiny flowers at the base of a tall central column called the spadix and surrounded by a deep purple, velvety spathe.
  — ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
• Tam said Odora’s spadix was a developmental irregularity, but emphasized the plant remains healthy.
  — Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026