siliqua
/ˈsɪlɪkwə
/(also silique /sɪˈliːk/)
noun (plural siliquae /ˈsɪlɪkwiː/ or siliques /sɪˈliːks/)
1 Botany The long, narrow seed pod of many plants of the cabbage family, splitting open when mature.The seeds and any abscised siliques were collected from plastic collars around the plant....
- Activity was also detected in the stigma, receptacle, and petal and sepal veins, and in siliques and developing seeds.
- Recently, ethylene evolution in desiccating siliques and seeds of mustard and canola was measured, with the conclusion that ethylene within the silique may contribute to seed degreening.
2A Roman silver coin of the 4th and 5th centuries ad, worth 1/24 solidus.The coins, which were miliarenses and siliquae used throughout the Roman Empire, had come from mints as far afield as Lyon, Arles, Rome and Constantinople and were buried in about AD 365.
Derivatives
siliquose
- Other dishes from the mountain include chicken stewed with siliquose pelvetia (a kind of fungus only found within 2m of the ancient pine trees around the Nine Dragon Hill), coral herbs and hill lilac.
siliquous
Origin
Latin, literally 'pod'.
- rose burner
- rose bush
- rose cake
- rose campion
- rose catarrh
- rose chafer
- rose-cheeked
- rose cockatoo
- rose cold
- rose color
- rose-color
- rose-colored cockatoo
- rose-colored pastor
- rose-colored spoonbill
- rose-colored vervain
- rose colour
- rose-coloured
- rose-coloured cockatoo
- rose-coloured pastor
- rose-coloured spoonbill
- rose-coloured starling
- rose-coloured vervain
- rose comb
- rose-combed
- rose copper