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SILIQUA
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Irregular inflected form: siliquae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Narrow elongated seed capsule peculiar to the family Cruciferae
Synonyms:
siliqua; silique
Classified under:
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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