seed vessel

American  

noun

Botany.

1. a pericarp.

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seed vessel British  

noun

1. botany a dry fruit, such as a capsule

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Etymology

Origin of seed vessel

First recorded in 1660–70

Example Sentences

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seed vessel

Halidrys siliquosa is remarkable for its spore receptacles, which have quite the appearance of the seed vessel of a flowering plant.

From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter

Among such words are carpos = fruit, pericarpion = seed vessel = pericarp, and metra, the word used by him for the central core of any stem whether formed of wood, pith, or other substance.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.

The pistil merely opens up a bit and down travels the powder into the seed vessel to help form seed.

From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy

Jute fibre is obtained from two varieties of plants which appear to differ only in the shape of the fruit or seed vessel.

From The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth by Woodhouse, T.

To drop out from the pod, or other seed vessel, when the seeds are over-ripe.

From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by Jennings, James