silique

IPA: siɫˈik

(botany) A long dry fruit (seed capsule), length more than twice the width, typical to cruciferous plants and consisting of two fused carpels that separate when ripe.

Examples of "silique" in Sentences

Adventitious pod in silique of _Cheiranthus_ 182 96,
Seeds: Small, black seeds grow in a row inside the silique.
Fruit is a long 2. 5-6.3 cm (1. 0-2.5 in) green capsule called a silique, and contains many seeds.
The high mixing of colors in icr1 mutant indicates that the synchronization of embryo development within a single silique is compromised.
As for your attack on the media, I would EXPECT them to focus on the explosion and the missing men rather then delve into a 10 minute silique about DP vs anchors on the Horizon
As for your attack on the media, I would EXPECT them to focus on the explosion and the missing men rather then delve into a 10 minute silique about DP vs anchors on the Horizon.
And sodeinly ispasurated and turning my selfe about, I might perceiue vpon one side of me many silique trees of _Aegypt_, with their ripe long coddes hanging and beating one against an other with the winde, had felled downe themselues, which when I perceiued, I was soone quieted, and beganne to make sport at my owne folly.