silique 的定义
Botany.
- the long two-valved seed vessel or pod of plants belonging to the mustard family.
更多silique例句
- 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.
- The Virginian Stock (Malcomia maritima) has a roundish silique, and only one stigma, which ends in a long tapering point.
- The capsule is very long and narrow, resembling a silique in shape, but broad on the outside, and the leaves are pinnate.