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SILIQUA (siliquae)
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Irregular inflected form: siliquae
Dictionary entry overview: What does siliqua mean?
• SILIQUA (noun)
The noun SILIQUA has 1 sense:
1. narrow elongated seed capsule peculiar to the family Cruciferae
Familiarity information: SILIQUA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Narrow elongated seed capsule peculiar to the family Cruciferae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
siliqua; silique
Hypernyms ("siliqua" is a kind of...):
capsule (a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "siliqua"):
silicle (short broad silique occurring in some cruciferous plants)
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