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SILIQUA (siliquae)

• 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.

• SILIQUA (noun)

Sense 1

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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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