loculicidal

American  

[lok-yuh-luh-sahyd-l] / ˌlɒk yə ləˈsaɪd l /

adjective

Botany.

1. (of a capsule) splitting lengthwise so as to divide each locule into two parts.

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Other Word Forms

• loculicidally adverb

Etymology

Origin of loculicidal

First recorded in 1810–20; locul(us) + -i- + -cidal

Example Sentences

Capsule globose, depressed, 5-lobed, 5-celled, loculicidal, but the valves cohering with the columella.

From Project Gutenberg

Capsule ovoid, 8–10-grooved, 4–5-celled, loculicidal; the very thick placentæ covered with innumerable minute seeds, which have a very loose coat.—Low and fleshy herbs, tawny, reddish, or white, parasitic on roots, or growing on decomposing vegetable matter like a Fungus; the clustered stems springing from a ball of matted fibrous rootlets, furnished with scales or bracts in place of leaves, 1–several-flowered; the summit at first nodding, in fruit erect.

From Project Gutenberg

Herbs, with alternate or opposite leaves, regular 5-merous and 5-androus flowers, the lobes of the corolla convolute in the bud, a 3-celled ovary and 3-lobed style; capsule 3-celled, 3-valved, loculicidal, few–many-seeded, the valves usually breaking away from the triangular central column.—Seeds amphitropous, the coat frequently mucilaginous when moistened and emitting spiral threads.

From Project Gutenberg

Pod loculicidal, usually flattened contrary to the valves and partition.

From Project Gutenberg

Capsule rather fleshy, globular, bursting irregularly or loculicidal.

From Project Gutenberg