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Definition of Loculicidal
1. a. Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; -- said of capsules.
Definition of Loculicidal
1. Adjective. (botany) dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; said of capsules ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Loculicidal
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Loculicidal
1. Of the dehiscence of a fruit, along lines coinciding with the centres of loculi. Compare: septicidal. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loculicidal
Literary usage of Loculicidal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... Ovary two-celled, with placenta in the axis, bearing a definite number of
ovules (two to eight or ten in each cell), becoming a loculicidal capsule. ..."
2. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"ages. Ovary on a short stipe or sessile. Capsule loculicidal, winged and produced
beyond the anther in the form of thin ..."
3. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"Style 1, 5-cleft at the apex. Stigmas 5. Carpels united into a 5-celled, 5-valved,
loculicidal capsule : margin of the valves not ..."
4. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"Pod loculicidal, usually flattened contrary to the valves and partition.
Cotyledons broad and flat. — Mucilaginous and (lightly bitter, not noxious. ..."
5. Class Book of Botany: Being an Introduction to the Study of the Vegetable by John Hutton Balfour (1852)
"Figure 800, the dehiscence is loculicidal; the carpels,'/, split at their Fig.
... Thus there is a combination of loculicidal and septicidal dehiscence. ..."
6. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Fruit и loculicidal capsule. 1. Narthecium. Filaments woolly. ... Fruit a
loculicidal capsule. 2. Xerophyllum. Flowers perfect. Seeds 2 in each cell. 3. ..."
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