Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, same as
silicle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A silicle.
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- noun botany Alternative spelling of
silicle .
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Examples
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In Bromfield's 'Flora Vectensis,' p. 35, the following account is given of an abnormal development in _Cardamine pratensis_: "On the lower part of the corymb were several seed vessels on pedicels changed from their usual linear to an ovate elliptical figure, so as to resemble a silicula.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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