Definitions for caudexes

caudexes cau·dex

Spelling: [kaw-deks]
IPA: /ˈkɔ dɛks/

Caudexes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in caudexes (acdeesux).

Definitions for caudexes

noun

  1. the main stem of a tree, especially a palm or tree fern.
  2. the woody or thickened persistent base of an herbaceous perennial.

Origin of caudexes

1820-30; Latin: tree trunk; cf. codex

Examples for caudexes

Kydia continues; a fine Palm, caudex 8-10-pedali; it probably belongs to the genus Wallichia?

The striking resemblance of Kingia, in caudex and leaves, to Xanthorrhoea, cannot fail to suggest its affinity to that genus also.

The name of a book, caudex, codex, was first given to these tabellae when they were strung together to form a square book.

A very characteristic feature of the Male Fern is its stout and sometimes very upright stem or caudex.

caudex arborescens erectus simplicissimus cylindraceus, 6-18-pedes altus, crassitie femoris.

caudex arhorescens cicatricibus basibusve foliorum exasperatus?

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.

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.

Word Value for caudexes
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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