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silique
[ suh-leek, sil-ik ]
noun
, Botany.
- the long two-valved seed vessel or pod of plants belonging to the mustard family.
silique
/ sĭ-lēk′ /
- An elongated dry dehiscent seed pod that is the characteristic fruit of the mustard family. The two sides split off at maturity and leave a central partition to which the seeds are attached.
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Other Words From
- sil·i·qua·ceous [sil-i-, kwey, -sh, uh, s], adjective
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Example Sentences
Herbs, with a pungent watery juice and cruciform tetradynamous flowers; fruit a silique or silicle.
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Pod a short silique or a silicle, varying from oblong-linear to globular, terete or nearly so; valves strongly convex, nerveless.
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The Virginian Stock (Malcomia maritima) has a roundish silique, and only one stigma, which ends in a long tapering point.
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The capsule is very long and narrow, resembling a silique in shape, but broad on the outside, and the leaves are pinnate.
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