| 释义 |
silique Bot.|sɪˈliːk|
Also 5 selyque.
[a. F. silique, or ad. L. siliqua pod.]
†1. = siliqua 1. Obs.
c1440Pallad. on Husb. xii. 312 The serue and medlar & selyque [v.r. Silique] tre.
2. = siliqua 2.
1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. ii. (1794) 30 When it is ripe, it becomes a kind of flat pod, called silique. 1806J. Galpine Brit. Bot. 242 Silique covered with roughish tubercles. 1864Reader 30 Apr. 559 Iodanthus..and Thelypodium..have terete and torulose siliques. 1872Darwin Orig. Spec. (ed. 6) vii. 174 The flowers..in the upper part of the spike [bear] lanceolate, two-valved, and two-seeded siliques. |