Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dehiscent elongated fruit, characteristic of the mustard family, having two valves that fall away leaving a central partition as the fruit dries.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the long podlike fruit of the mustard family.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An oblong or elongated seed vessel, consisting of two valves with a dissepiment between, and opening by sutures at either margin. The seeds are attached to both edges of the dissepiment, alternately upon each side of it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A long dry
fruit (seed capsule ), length more than twice the width, typical tocruciferous plants and consisting of two fusedcarpels that separate when ripe.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun narrow elongated seed capsule peculiar to the family Cruciferae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Fruit is a long 2. 5-6.3 cm (1. 0-2.5 in) green capsule called a silique, and contains many seeds.
Find Me A Cure Mukul 2010
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Adventitious pod in silique of _Cheiranthus_ 182 96,
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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And sodeinly ispasurated and turning my selfe about, I might perceiue vpon one side of me many silique trees of _Aegypt_, with their ripe long coddes hanging and beating one against an other with the winde, had felled downe themselues, which when I perceiued, I was soone quieted, and beganne to make sport at my owne folly.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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As for your attack on the media, I would EXPECT them to focus on the explosion and the missing men rather then delve into a 10 minute silique about DP vs anchors on the Horizon.
Drudge Retort Zatoichi 2010
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As for your attack on the media, I would EXPECT them to focus on the explosion and the missing men rather then delve into a 10 minute silique about DP vs anchors on the Horizon
Drudge Retort Zatoichi 2010
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Seeds: Small, black seeds grow in a row inside the silique.
Find Me A Cure Mukul 2010
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The high mixing of colors in icr1 mutant indicates that the synchronization of embryo development within a single silique is compromised.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Ora Hazak et al. 2010
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