Siliqua (plural siliquae)

A fruit divided into two cells by a thin partition, opening by two valves which fall away from a frame on which the seeds are borne; more than three times as long as wide (e.g. in Cruciferae/Brassicaceae).


A pod, more than three times as long as broad, found in the crucifer family (Cruciferae).


 


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