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silicle
[ sil-i-kuhl ]
noun
, Botany.
- a short silique.
silicle
/ ˈsɪlɪkəl /
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Herbs, with a pungent watery juice and cruciform tetradynamous flowers; fruit a silique or silicle.
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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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Pouch, the silicle or short pod, as of Shepherd's Purse, 123.
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