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silique
[ suh-leek, sil-ik ]
noun
Botany.
- the long two-valved seed vessel or pod of plants belonging to the mustard family.
silique
/ ²õÄ-±ôŧ°ì′ /
- An elongated dry dehiscent seed pod that is the characteristic fruit of the mustard family. The two sides split off at maturity and leave a central partition to which the seeds are attached.
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²õ¾±±ô·¾±Â·±ç³Ü²¹Â·³¦±ð´Ç³Ü²õ [sil-i-, kwey, -sh, uh, s], adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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An average garlic mustard plant can produce up to 600 tiny seeds, which are arranged in long, narrow capsules called siliques.
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Pod a short silique or a silicle, varying from oblong-linear to globular, terete or nearly so; valves strongly convex, nerveless.
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A Silicle or Pouch is only a short and broad silique, like that of the Shepherd's Purse, Fig.
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Saying which, he glances up to the algarobias, from which the long siliques droop down in profusion, more plentiful than tempting to him.
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In the other they are inclosed in a silique, as in Wall-flower.
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