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‖ siliqua|ˈsɪlɪkwə|
Pl. siliquae.
[L., a pod.]
†1. The carob-tree. (Cf. silique 1.) Obs.
c1440Pallad. on Husb. iii. 978 Now..is to renewe The siliqua in plaunte & seedes trewe.
2. Bot. A long pod-like seed-vessel.
1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Siliqua, in Botany, is the Seed-vessel, Husk, Cod, or Pod, of such Plants as are of the Leguminous kind. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. vi. (1765) 13 Siliqua, a Pod, is a Pericarpium of two Valves, wherein the Seeds are fastened along both the Sutures or Joinings of the Valves. 1793Martyn Lang. Bot. s.v., The proper Siliqua is two-celled, having a partition running the whole length of it. 1861S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 268 The wallflower seed-vessel is a Siliqua. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 138 Compare the long capsule of Wallflower (a siliqua);..the siliqua of Radish.
3. Anat. A formation suggesting a husk or pod.
1891in Cent. Dict.
4. A Roman silver coin of the 4th and 5th centuries a.d., of the value of 1/24th of a solidus.
1889Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. X. 95 All the mediaeval standards were based upon the gold solidus of Constantine the Great..divided into 24 siliquae or κεράτια (from whence comes carat). 1927A. R. Burns Money & Monetary Policy Early Times x. 243 From about the middle of the 4th century A.D. the siliqua, the half of the miliarense, became increasingly important. 1940[see aureus]. 1962R. A. G. Carson Coins 185 Siliquae were struck mainly by Italian mints for Arcadius and Honorius and by the Gallic mints for the usurpers in control there.
Hence siliˈquaceous a., of the nature of, suggestive of, a siliqua.
1744Phil. Trans. XLIII. 97 A siliquaceous Aperture, with a Row of Seeds ready to fall through it. |