Siliqua (Noun)
Meaning
Narrow elongated seed capsule peculiar to the family Cruciferae.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The dry, papery siliqua split open to release numerous seeds, scattering them across the landscape.
- After maturity, the siliqua dehisces to expose its rows of small seeds within.
- Careful examination of the plant revealed the siliqua had burst, revealing tiny brown seeds inside.
- Arabidopsis seeds mature in siliqua, dry and fragile containers that release the seeds with any slight disturbance.
- Close observation revealed that each seed-bearing stem produced an average of six to eight mature siliqua.