Definition of Silicules

1. Noun. (plural of silicule) ¹

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Definition of Silicules

1. silicule [n] - See also: silicule

Lexicographical Neighbors of Silicules

silicosiderosis
silicosis
silicotic
silicotic granuloma
silicotics
silicotuberculosis
silicotungstate
silicotungstates
silicotungstic
silicotungstic acid
silicotungstic acids
silicula
siliculae
siliculas
silicule
silicules (current term)
siliculose
silicum
silinaite
siling
silipide
siliqua
siliqua olivae
siliquaceous
siliquae
siliquas
silique
siliques
siliquiform
siliquosa

Literary usage of Silicules

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The British Flower Garden, (series the Second): Containing Coloured Figures by Robert Sweet (1831)
"Stamens 6, four longer than the others; the longer filaments furnished with a minute tooth near the jX'int: the shorter ones entire. silicules or seed-pods ..."

2. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1900)
"A careful examination of authentic specimens in the Kew Herbarium shows that many of the silicules are really notched. There are two sheets of specimens ..."

3. Flora of Tropical Africa by Daniel Oliver, David Prain, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1868)
"silicules more or less deeply emarginate) at the apex 1. ... silicules more or less cordate-reniform ; apex nearly or quite entire (not ..."

4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1829)
"This character will at all times distinguish this species, independent of the shape of the silicules, which are decidedly globose, and scarcely depressed at ..."

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