any fruit, esp. a dry, hollow pod, containing seeds
seed vessel in American English
noun
Botany
a pericarp
Word origin
[1660–70]This word is first recorded in the period 1660–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: ballet, interleave, mainstream, saturated, vocalize
Examples of 'seed vessel' in a sentence
seed vessel
The beak of the seed vessel measures nearly an inch long.
Neltje Blanchan Wild Flowers (1900). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)