Spate
(Spate) n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. speid.] A river flood; an overflow or inundation. Burns.
Gareth in a showerful spring
Stared at the spate.
Tennyson. Spatha
(||Spa"tha) n.; pl. Spathæ [L.] (Bot.) A spathe.
Spathaceous
(Spa*tha"ceous) a. (Bot.) Having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spathal.
Spathal
(Spa"thal) a. (Bot.) Furnished with a spathe; as, spathal flowers. Howitt.
Spathe
(Spathe) n. [L. spatha, Gr. : cf. F. spathe. See Spade for digging.] (Bot.) 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.
The name is also given to the several-leaved involucre of the iris and other similar plants.
Spathed
(Spathed) a. (Bot.) Having a spathe or calyx like a sheath.
Spathic
(Spath"ic) a. [Cf. F. spathique, fr. F. & G. spath spar.] Like spar; foliated or lamellar; spathose.
Spathic iron (Min.), siderite. See Siderite (a).
Spathiform
(Spath"i*form) a. [F. spathiforme.] Resembling spar in form. "The ocherous, spathiform,
and mineralized forms of uranite." Lavoisier
Spathose
(Spath"ose`) a. (Min.) See Spathic.
Spathose
(Spath"ose`), a. [See Spathe.] (Bot.) Having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spatheceous; spathal.
Spathous
(Spath"ous) a. (Bot.) Spathose.
Spathulate
(Spath"u*late) a. See Spatulate.
Spatial
(Spa"tial) a. Of or pertaining to space. "Spatial quantity and relations." L. H. Atwater.
