Definitions for caudex

caudex cau·dex

Spelling: [kaw-deks]
IPA: /ˈkɔ dɛks/

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).

Definitions for caudex

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 caudex

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

Examples for caudex

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.

Word Value for caudex
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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