The word(s) "spathes" appears 3 time(s) in 3 verse(s) in Quran in Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation.

(1) It is He Who sendeth down rain from the skies: with it We produce vegetation of all kinds: from some We produce green (crops), out of which We produce grain, heaped up (at harvest); out of the date-palm and its sheaths (or spathes) (come) clusters of dates hanging low and near: and (then there are) gardens of grapes, and olives, and pomegranates, each similar (in kind) yet different (in variety): when they begin to bear fruit, feast your eyes with the fruit and the ripeness thereof. Behold! in these things there are signs for people who believe.

(2) "And corn-fields and date-palms with spathes near breaking (with the weight of fruit)?

(3) Therein is fruit and date-palms, producing spathes (enclosing dates);