Caudex is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 73 anagrams from letters in caudex (acdeux).
1820-30; Latin: tree trunk; cf. codex
The striking resemblance of Kingia, in caudex and leaves, to Xanthorrhoea, cannot fail to suggest its affinity to that genus also.
caudex arhorescens cicatricibus basibusve foliorum exasperatus?
A very characteristic feature of the Male Fern is its stout and sometimes very upright stem or caudex.
A caudex is the old name for such a peculiar trunk as a Palm-stem; it is also used for an upright and thick rootstock.
The name of a book, caudex, codex, was first given to these tabellae when they were strung together to form a square book.
Where the stem of the Fern is upright it is properly termed a caudex, whilst in its horizontal form it is spoken of as a rhizome.
Kydia continues; a fine Palm, caudex 8-10-pedali; it probably belongs to the genus Wallichia?
caudex arborescens erectus simplicissimus cylindraceus, 6-18-pedes altus, crassitie femoris.
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