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Definition of Silicule
1. n. A silicle.
Definition of Silicule
1. Noun. (botany) (alternative spelling of silicle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Silicule
1. a dry fruit [n -S]
Medical Definition of Silicule
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Silicule
Literary usage of Silicule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: A Description of Their Phanerogams and by William Hillebrand (1888)
"silicule suborbicular, much flattened contrary to the narrow partition, ...
silicule 3", obovate, narrowly emarginate and slightly crested at the top, ..."
2. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"Transverse section of silicule (mag.)> fited, entire, and cut both ways to show
the 3-partite and incumbent cotyledons. ..."
3. An Elementary Course of Botany: Structural, Physiological, and Systematic by Arthur Henfrey, Maxwell Tylden Masters (1878)
"... with a silicule opening by valves, ... a valved silicule with the ... silicule,
often 1-celled without a ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"... and which ig regarded as formed by parietal placentas, the valves giving way
close to the suture. The seeds are cither in one row or two. A silicule ..."
5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1847)
"... of parts which the silicule usually possesses is exactly doubled. Bernhardi
therefore in his latest memoir on the subject f regards the perfect ovary of ..."
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