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seed vessel

NOUN
  1. the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary

How To Use seed vessel In A Sentence

  • It can readily be recognised by its acicular, needle-like leaves, and more particularly by its peculiarly shaped seed vessel, which resembles the pattern on an old-fashioned Indian shawl. Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
  • This scar, also called hilum, is where the seed was attached to the seed vessel. The First Book of Farming
  • In Bromfield's 'Flora Vectensis,' p. 35, the following account is given of an abnormal development in _Cardamine pratensis_: "On the lower part of the corymb were several seed vessels on pedicels changed from their usual linear to an ovate elliptical figure, so as to resemble a silicula. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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