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silicle Bot.|ˈsɪlɪk(ə)l|
[ad. F. silicule or L. silicula.]
A small short seed-pod.
1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. ii. (1794) 31 The second [order] contains those [flowers] whose seed-vessel is a silicle, that is, a small and very short pod. 1812New Botanic Gard. I. 46 The silicle is entire, oval, and full of brown seeds. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. II. 257 It will flower and produce abundance of seed, which, when the silicles or pouches become ripe, may be gathered. 1861Mrs. Lankester Wild Flowers 29 The fruit is a pod... When long, it is called a silique, and, when short, a silicle. |