siliquose, a.
(sɪlɪˈkwəʊs)
[ad. mod.L. siliquōsus, f. L. siliqua: cf. F. siliqueux (1549).]
1. Bot. Bearing pods or siliques.
| 1693 Phil. Trans. XVII. 687 In this Sixth Volume we have describ'd and figur'd 61 Trees and Shrubs, the greatest part whereof are Siliquose. 1712 Ibid. XXVII. 425 This is not a Siliquose Tree. 1759 [see siliculose]. 1822 Good Study Med. III. 247 A free use of the siliquose and coniferous plants as a part of the common diet. 1839 Hallam Hist. Lit. iii. iii. §13 This is manifest in siliquose plants and in palms. 1857 A. Gray First Less. Bot. (1866) 231 Siliquose, bearing siliques or pods which resemble siliques. |
2. Having the form of a silique.
a. Bot.| 1821 W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. I. 83 Capsule siliquose, stipitate. 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 235 Fruit capsular or succulent; the former siliquose and 2-valved. 1866 Treas. Bot. 255 The fertile..[fronds are] divided into linear somewhat siliquose segments. |
| Comb. 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 9 The siliquose-fruited genera, such as Glaucium and Eschscholtzia. |
b. Path. (See
quots.)
| 1825 Good Study Med. (ed. 2) III. 85 Under this variety [of small-pox] was reckoned by the best writers the siliquose, or that which consists of soft and empty vesicles. a 1827 Ibid. (1829) IV. 234 Schmidt supposed that, in infants, the siliquose cataract might be caused by convulsions. |