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

It is distinguished, as the name indicates, by having two wings to the seed vessel, H. tetraptera having four.

From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Webster, Angus Duncan

Egyptians, seed vessel of the lotus a sacred symbol to the, 9-u.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

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.

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.

We have seen that six hundred years after Adam appears Noah, another self-triplicated Saviour or preserver of man, with his ark or seed vessel, beneath which is veiled the female element.

From The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by Gamble, Eliza Burt