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Definition of Seed vessel
1. Noun. The ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary.
Generic synonyms: Cover, Covering, Natural Covering
Group relationships: Seed
Specialized synonyms: Epicarp, Exocarp, Mesocarp, Endocarp, Pit, Stone, Capsule, Bur, Burr
Definition of Seed vessel
1. Noun. (botany) The ripened and otherwise modified wall of a plant ovary ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seed Vessel
Literary usage of Seed vessel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"Those in which the glands at the base of the -seed-vessel are large and well
developed, and the appendages at the insertion of the leaves, small or wanting; ..."
2. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1866)
"The Pericarp, or Seed-vessel. The pericarp and the seeds it contains together
constitute the FRUIT ; a term which has a more extensive signification in ..."
3. The Forest Trees of Britain by Charles Alexander Johns (1892)
"SSKL. becomes a thin, pale, membranous seed-vessel, rounded and notched at ...
The cal}fc remains attached to the base of the seed-vessel, which does not ..."
4. Rustless Coatings: Corrosion and Electrolysis of Iron and Steel by Matthew Patterson Wood (1904)
"4 and 5 represent the seed-vessel, with its tall stamens and taller pistils; Fig.
... 8 is a ripe seed-vessel. Sections of the seed and the perfect seed are ..."
5. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1810)
"Half a similar seed vessel cut longitudinally, showing the first appearance of
the seed vessel in the bud of a female flower. Fig. 3. ..."
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