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SILIQUA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: siliquae   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Narrow elongated seed capsule peculiar to the family Cruciferae

Synonyms:

siliqua; silique

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("siliqua" is a kind of...):

capsule (a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "siliqua"):

silicle (short broad silique occurring in some cruciferous plants)

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