Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the frame-like placenta, across which the septum stretches, from which the valves of a capsule or other dehiscent fruit fall away in dehiscence, as in
Cruciferæ , certain Papaveraceæ, Mimosa, etc.: sometimes incorrectly applied to the septum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The framework of some pods, as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The
framework of somepods , such as thecress , which remains after thevalves drop off.
Etymologies
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Latin, doorcase.
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Examples
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Here, too, may also be mentioned the presence of an adventitious siliqua within the ordinary one attached along the same line as the ovules, and partially divided by a replum into two cavities.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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-- _Sinapis_, replum and ovules; the dotted line shows the position of the carpels.]
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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