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silicle

[ sil-i-kuhl ]

noun

, Botany.
  1. a short silique.


silicle

/ ˈsɪlɪkəl /

noun

  1. botany a variant of silicula
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of silicle1

First recorded in 1775–85, silicle is from the Latin word silicula little husk or pod. See siliqua, -ule
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Example Sentences

Herbs, with a pungent watery juice and cruciform tetradynamous flowers; fruit a silique or silicle.

Pod a short silique or a silicle, varying from oblong-linear to globular, terete or nearly so; valves strongly convex, nerveless.

Pouch, the silicle or short pod, as of Shepherd's Purse, 123.

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