silique

/suh-leek, sil-ik/US // səˈlik, ˈsɪl ɪk //

辣椒,辣椒素,辣椒酱,辣椒水

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Botany.
- : the long two-valved seed vessel or pod of plants belonging to the mustard family.

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.