Siliculose

Definitions

  • Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
    • Siliculose (Bot) Bearing silicles; pertaining to, or resembling, silicles.
    • Siliculose Full of, or consisting of, husks; husky.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
    • siliculose In botany, same as silicular.
    • siliculose Full of husks; consisting of husks; husky. Same as siliquose, 2.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
    • adj Siliculose (bot.) having, pertaining to, or resembling silicles: husky
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Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
NL. siliculosus, fr. L. silicula,: cf. F. siliculeux,. See Silicle
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
L. silicula, dim. of siliqua, a pod.

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