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loculicidal
[lok-yuh-luh-sahyd-l]
adjective
(of a capsule) splitting lengthwise so as to divide each locule into two parts.
Other Word Forms
- loculicidally adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of loculicidal1
Example Sentences
Capsule obovate, contracted at base, 3-valved, loculicidal.
Capsule rather fleshy, globular, bursting irregularly or loculicidal.
Capsule oblong or obovate, 3-angled, loculicidal, 3-valved, with several black roundish seeds in each cell.—Scape and linear leaves from a coated bulb; the flowers in a simple raceme, mostly bracted, on jointed pedicels.
Pod mostly 5-celled, loculicidal, leaving scarcely any axis in the centre after opening.
Fruit a small, loculicidal 2-seeded pod, usually rounded and notched at the apex, much flattened contrary to the very narrow partition.
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