silique

American  

[suh-leek, sil-ik] / səˈlik, ˈsɪl ɪk /

noun

Botany.

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

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silique Scientific  

/ sĭ-lēk′ /

1. 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.

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Other Word Forms

• siliquaceous adjective

Etymology

Origin of silique

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

Example Sentences

Adventitious pod in silique of Cheiranthus 182  96, 97.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

Pod a short silique or a silicle, varying from oblong-linear to globular, terete or nearly so; valves strongly convex, nerveless.

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 Gray, Asa

A Silicle or Pouch is only a short and broad silique, like that of the Shepherd's Purse, Fig.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

In the other they are inclosed in a silique, as in Wall-flower.

From The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. by Darwin, Erasmus