seed vessel

seed vessel

n (Botany) botany a dry fruit, such as a capsule

seed′ ves`sel

n. a pericarp. [1660–70]

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seed vessel - the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovarypericarpcovering, natural covering, cover - a natural object that covers or envelops; "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover"seed - a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testaepicarp, exocarp - outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grapemesocarp - the middle layer of a pericarpendocarp, pit, stone - the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"capsule - a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mossesbur, burr - seed vessel having hooks or prickles