单词 | seed case |
释义 | > as lemmasseed case seed case n. a structure within a flowering plant containing its seeds. ΚΠ 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. L ii Clymenum..hath lytle sede cases about the stalke turnynge one into another. 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. iii. v. 186 The Seed-Case, whether it be called a Cod, Pod, or by any other name. 1724 P. Blair Pharmaco-botanologia ii. 68 The Top of the flowering Foot-stalk, supports the Ovarium or Seed-case. 1893 G. D. Leslie Lett. to Marco xii. 71 I take great interest..in the seediness of my garden; seeds and seed-cases are perhaps the most wonderful of any of the parts of plant life. 1954 Times 22 Dec. 10/6 Does the poison reside only in the hard seed cases? 2007 S. R. Kaufman & W. Kaufman Invasive Plants ii. 128 Flowers are greenish-red to brown without petals, producing clusters of round-winged seed cases. < as lemmas |
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