silicle
[ sil-i-kuhl ]
/ ˈsɪl ɪ kəl /
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noun Botany.
a short silique.
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Herbs, with a pungent watery juice and cruciform tetradynamous flowers; fruit a silique or silicle.
Pod a short silique or a silicle, varying from oblong-linear to globular, terete or nearly so; valves strongly convex, nerveless.
Pouch, the silicle or short pod, as of Shepherd's Purse, 123.
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