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A long dry fruit (seed capsule), length more than twice the width, typical to cruciferous plants and consisting of two fused carpels that separate when ripe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
narrow elongated seed capsule peculiar to the family Cruciferae
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: siliqua
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: capsule
Narrower terms: silicle
From French silique, from Latin siliqua (“a pod or husk, a very small weight or measure”). Doublet of siliqua.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Belarusian:
струк
(struk)
— fruit with two carpels
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Breton:
hirglorenn
— fruit with two carpels
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Czech:
šešule
— fruit with two carpels
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Dutch:
hauw
— fruit with two carpels
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Esperanto:
silikvo
— fruit with two carpels
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Finnish:
litu
— fruit with two carpels
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French:
silique
— fruit with two carpels
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German:
Schote
— fruit with two carpels
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Hungarian:
becő
— fruit with two carpels
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Hungarian:
becőtermés
— fruit with two carpels
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Italian:
siliqua
— fruit with two carpels
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Polish:
łuszczyna
— fruit with two carpels
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Polish:
łuszczynka
— fruit with two carpels
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Romanian:
silicvă
— fruit with two carpels
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Russian:
стручо́к
(stručók)
— fruit with two carpels
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Slovak:
šešuľa
— fruit with two carpels
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Slovene:
lusk
— fruit with two carpels
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Lower Sorbian:
tšuk
— fruit with two carpels
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Upper Sorbian:
truk
— fruit with two carpels
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Spanish:
silicua
— fruit with two carpels
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Spanish:
vaina
— fruit with two carpels
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Tagalog:
gitladbunga
— fruit with two carpels
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Ukrainian:
стручок
(stručok)
— fruit with two carpels
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Welsh:
silicwa
— fruit with two carpels