silicle

Example sentences from the Web for silicle

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

  The Elements of Botany |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

• 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