silicle

silicle [sil-i-kuh l] ExamplesWord Origin noun Botany.

1. a short silique.

Origin of silicle First recorded in 1775–85, silicle is from the Latin word silicula little husk or pod. See siliqua, -ule Examples from the Web for silicle Historical Examples of silicle

Pouch, the silicle or short pod, as of Shepherd’s Purse, 123.

The Elements of Botany

Asa Gray

Herbs, with a pungent watery juice and cruciform tetradynamous flowers; fruit a silique or silicle.

The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States

Asa Gray

Pod a short silique or a silicle, varying from oblong-linear to globular, terete or nearly so; valves strongly convex, nerveless.

The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States

Asa Gray

British Dictionary definitions for silicle silicle noun

1. botany a variant of silicula