Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany, bearing siliques; having or forming that species of pod called a silique: as, siliquose plants.
- In medicine, resembling or suggesting a silicle. Also siliculose.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Bearing siliques; ; pertaining to, or resembling, siliques.
Examples
“The whole tribe is termed _lepidium_, or "siliquose," scaly, with reference to the shape of the seed-pouches.”
“It is one-celled siliquose, and pulpy within, wrinkled on the outside, and full of a vast number of seeds like grains of sand, having when properly prepared, a peculiar and delicious fragrance.”
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A Galimafrée of Plant Anatomy & Morphology Terms
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Adjectival Arcana
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