silique

[ suh-leek, sil-ik ]

/ səˈlik, ˈsɪl ɪk /

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noun Botany.

the long two-valved seed vessel or pod of plants belonging to the mustard family.

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Origin of silique

1400–50; late Middle English selyque, silique (<Middle French silique) <Latin siliqua;see siliqua

OTHER WORDS FROM silique

sil·i·qua·ceous

[sil-i-kwey-shuhs], /ˌsɪl ɪˈkweɪ ʃəs/, adjective

Words nearby silique

silicotuberculosis, silicula, siliculose, siliculose cataract, siliqua, silique, siliquose, siliquose cataract, silk, silkaline, silk cotton

How to use silique in a sentence

Herbs, with a pungent watery juice and cruciform tetradynamous flowers; fruit a silique or silicle.
The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States|Asa Gray
Pod a short silique or a silicle, varying from oblong-linear to globular, terete or nearly so; valves strongly convex, nerveless.
The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States|Asa Gray
The Virginian Stock (Malcomia maritima) has a roundish silique, and only one stigma, which ends in a long tapering point.
Botany for Ladies|Jane Loudon
The capsule is very long and narrow, resembling a silique in shape, but broad on the outside, and the leaves are pinnate.
Botany for Ladies|Jane Loudon

Scientific definitions for silique

silique

[ sĭ-lēk′ ]

An elongated dry dehiscent seed pod that is the characteristic fruit of the mustard family. The two sides split off at maturity and leave a central partition to which the seeds are attached.