spa diceous (c as sh)

[Latin spadiceus, from spadic (gen it, spadicis )=a light, red color.] *1. Ord. Lang.: Of a light, red color, usually termed bay. "Of those five Scaliger beheld, though one was spadic cous , or of a light red, yet was there not any of this com. plexion among them."-Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. ii., ch. xxiii. 2. Botany : (1) Bright brown; pure and very clear brown. (2) Of or belonging to a spadix (q. v.). spā-di-cose, adj. [Mod. Lat. spadicosus, from Lat. spadix (q. v.).] Bot .: Having or resembling a spadix (q. v.).