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Definition of Silicules
1. silicule [n] - See also: silicule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silicules
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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