Definition for SIL-IQUE, or SIL'I-QUA

SIL-IQUE, or SIL'I-QUA, n. [SIL-IQUE, Fr. SIL'I-QUA, L.]

In botany, an elongated pericarp or seed-vessel, consisting of two valves and a dissepiment or partition, with the seeds fixed alternately on each side of the dissepiment, at both sutures. [1841 Addenda only.]

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