With reference to plants and fungi. The rounded seed pod of various plants, esp. a poppy. Cf. poppy head, n. 2.

spec. A rounded seed-vessel or pod, as that of flax or cotton.

Botany. The inflated pericarp of some plants.

= boll, n.1 3.

= bolien, bollen, n., bulleyn. Obsolete.

A small roundish or knob-like body. A seed vessel of flax or other plants. Obsolete.

Something of the shape or structure of a beehive. A capsule or case containing many cells.

A seed vessel or seed case of a plant, esp. a dehiscent capsule.

Botany (a) A dry dehiscent seed-vessel, containing one or more cells, and opening when ripe by the separation of its valves. (b) Applied to…

Bot. Sometimes applied to the lower or permanent part of the capsule called pyxidium, which remains attached to the flower stalk in the form of an…

Botany. In a flowering plant: = pyxidium, n.

In a flowering plant: a capsule opening by transverse dehiscence, so that the top comes off like the lid of a box.

a seed capsule that discharges its seeds through pores.