loculicidal

American  

[lok-yuh-luh-sahyd-l] / ˌlɒk jə 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

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Etymology

Origin of loculicidal

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

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Example Sentences

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loculicidal

Capsule rather fleshy, globular, bursting irregularly or loculicidal.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Capsule crowned or enclosed by the persistent perianth, 3-celled, loculicidal, 3–many-seeded.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Pod top-shaped, globular, or didymous, thin, its summit or upper half free from and projecting beyond the tube of the calyx, loculicidal across the top.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

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

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

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

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

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