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Definition of Seedcase

1. Noun. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves).

Definition of Seedcase

1. Noun. (botany) A pouch like structure of a plant that encloses the seeds. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seedcase

1. a pericarp [n -S] - See also: pericarp

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seedcase

Literary usage of Seedcase

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

1. Observation Lessons on Plant Life: A Guide to the Teacher. A Two Years by Beverley Ussher, Dorothy Jebb (1903)
"In what does t he seedcase of a cereal differ from that of a buttercup or a strawberry ? A grain of corn entirely fills the cell, and its thin skin is ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Grew says that " when the attire or apices break or "Pen, the globules or dust falls down on the seedcase or uterus, »nd touches it with a prolific virtue. ..."

3. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's: With Notes by the Way by Elihu Burritt (1864)
"... have come down to us, as it were, only in their travelling costume, with their best dresses packed away in stamen, or petal, or private seedcase ..."

4. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's: With Notes by the Way : Illustrated by Elihu Burritt (1864)
"... have come down to us, as it were, only in their travelling costume, with their best dresses packed away in stamen, or petal, or private seedcase, ..."

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